Loss of text and part of pictures when burned on DVD

I have made a documentation and transferred it to DVD. When watching the DVDs I find that the pictures are cropped. Most of the time it does not matter, it matters however, when part of the text or important parts of pictures are missing. And this is very annoying as I have spent a lot of time in creating this documentation.
When watching the project on the computer or via AppleTV everything is fine.
Is there a way of finding out or calculating how much will be lost prior to burning the DVD or while making the project in iMovie?
An answer and hopefully a solution to this is much appreciated.

Oh vad det är svårt att vara tillräckligt tydlig. Men jag lär mig. Det är min oförmåga att begripa!
This let me assume that all was OK in iMovie.      YES
So You do a 16x9 project
• What version of iMovie do You use ?        iMovie '11 9.0.4 (1634)
• Did You set up iDVD as a 16x9 project    YES
• the 16x9 size has to be set at two places in iDVD    Have done that
first when starting a brand new project
then under Project/Project info [Shift+cmd+I] - here too set 16x9
So if You can describe from what Camera was used (Video Codec) to the final DVD - step by step - we can see where the work flow differs.
Camera: LUMIX TZ7
Download material to iPhoto and/or iMovie - rework the pics in iPhoto but also in Adobe photoshop. It is usually the pics I have reworked in Adobe photoshop that are cut.
Then I start a new project in iMovie and add the pics and videos. When I have pics which I do not want to be cropped or with Ken Burns effect I use the setting "fit the frame" (mine is in German and says "anpassen").
I do not share to iDVD, but finalize the project in iMovie, which - after many hours - provides all sizes.
Then I open a new project in iDVD in 16:9 and insert the rendered film which is then available in medium, large, 720p and 1080p. I chose the 1080p.
Then I make an Image Copy and burn the DVD.
Så gör jag, kan du skriver direkt till mig?
Hälsningar
Therese L.

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1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1)
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
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• Best Performances
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• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
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HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
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• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
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