Juddering on final disk

I have made some slideshows in iphoto08 and sent them to iDVD08 which exports them as qt movies. I then created a menu and linked each slideshow to a button on it. The final result looks great on my computer but after burning the disk I find that the slideshows are not of great quality - the photos have a kind of glazed look and when a ken burns effect pan is happening it is juddering as are the transitions. I have tried burning the disk at the slowest speed x1 set in idvd preferences and I have tried saving as a disk image and burning through disk utility all with the same results. If I play back the qt movie through qt it looks fine so I know qt is not the problem. I am using dvd+rw Verbatim 4x disks. I can not find the spec of my sdrive but i think it burns at 4x.
Any advice would be appreciated

Hi
Quality of the DVD-disc depends on several things.
• iMovie 1 to 6 Not iM08 : I DON'T USE the function Share/Export to iDVD from within iMovie - IT IS DESTRUCTIVE !!
Just drop the movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window - then iDVD do the
rendering and so much better. Especially if there is photos in the movie.
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disc - should be about 25Gb when all material is imported
and structured. This for iDVD to work with - iDVD can't use an extern hard disc as scratch.
(less than 5Gb - result is most probably of no use at all)
• Best Quality isn't Top - better is Best Performances (up to 60 min movie)
confused naming -
in iDVD'08 there is Pro Quality AND I like it.
• Media brand - I use Verbatim
• Type: IF SL DVDs -> DVD-R my choise no DVD+R or +/-RW
• I save a Disc-Image and burn this at an as SLOW speed as possibly (eg x1) with Toast™
(Disc Util tool can also do this)
from Karsten:
• Keep to same standard NTSC or PAL trough all steps
from: Matti Haveri:
• Is it jerky (=maybe some part of the workflow deinterlaced the footage -- iMovie can do this behind the users's back quite well!)
• Or is it awfully jerky (=maybe the field dominance is wrong -- this happens very easily when importing upper field first stuff from MPEG).
This is what come's first to my mind.
Yours Bengt W

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