Jittery old home movies

I had some very old home movies transferred from 16 mm film to DVD, at Costco. The DVD I received plays well on our DVD player and TV set. I copied the files from the DVD to my Mac, and imported the .VOB files into FCE, rendered them, did some simple edits, and exported as a QuickTime file.
What I see is shaky, jittery motion, not camera motion but a vibrating kind of motion, not nearly as smooth as when watching the DVD on a DVD player and TV set. If the scene is static and nothing is moving, of course it looks fine, but as soon as someone moves around or the camera moves, it looks like an earthquake is happening.
What is the usual solution for this? I'm suspecting Deinterlace or Motion Blur might help, but I'm wondering if there is a standard procedure for this type of footage when digitized.
Thanks!

I am interested in the jitter you get during movement which I am sure will be worse with objects moving across the frame.
I had a similar thing when I first started shooting HDV and burned the results to standard def DVDs in iDVD or Toast.
After weeks of intensive testing and questioning I never found the cause but Tom found a workaround . . . . . basically copying the HD timeline into a DV PAL sequence and then rendering it before exporting to iDVD.
However, at that time I was also using Final Cut Studio 2 and encoding in Compressor and DVD Studio Pro completely eliminated the problem.
Several people said that they could not replicate the problem . . . . but they were all in NTSC land . . . so I suspect it may be a standards issue.
Just realised that I am rambling on and not providing much help!
Do what David suggests.

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http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
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Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
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Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3381
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http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.products.htm
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Hi Bob,
sorry for being late.. who invented timezones anyhow?!
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step 1)
convert the DVD into editable data... my website (see Sue's post) explains one method ... for sure, there are many other tools, claiming to help you:
in recommended order ... :
* DVDxDV (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
* Apple mpeg2 plugin (29$) + Streamclip (free)
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none of these apps override copyprotection mechanisms as on commercial dvds...
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
ANY of these tools or methods convert the content of a DVD into another file format, called 'dv'.. which is iMovies native format....
step 2)
NOW you are allowed to import these converted fils into iM.. handle them as normal clips: edit them, arrange'em.. whatever...
step 3)
when you created the new project, you hopefully choosed 'Movies' as the folder... quit iM, launch iDVD, choose your project, create dvd...
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dvd >> 'dv' >> iMovie >> iDVD ...
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//don't hesitate making use of the Search feature of this forum //
DVDs are in a socalled delivery format (mpeg2), which isn't meant and made for any processing as editing...
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Apple mpeg2 plugin (19$) + Streamclip (free)
VisualHub (23.32$)
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+be nice to copy rights ...+

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We-ell, since no-one else has replied:
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get for 20$ the Apple mpeg2 plugin
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http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
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The video transfer firm has no answer to this problem either.
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