Missing and bad colors burning to DVD

I'm a newbie to IDVD and tried burning my first project - a 4 minute slideshow from IMovieHD, with Ken Burns effects, no transitions, one fade-out and music.
I exported from IMovie to IDVD , best quality, NTSC, burned the disc, and it ran fine, music great, but everything was tinged green, missing reds totally.
Everything looked perfect in IDVD Preview. Used Verbatim -R DVDs. Any helpful hints out there?
Thanks,
-Woody

Hi, Woody,
everything was tinged green, missing reds totally.
Wow! That is different! Since you cannot depend on Preview to catch all errors, try to save your project to disc image. Edit->Save as disc image. See this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
If it saves fine, view it using DVD player to see if you still get the color distortion. Follow Len Goff's instructions here: Len Goff, "G4 won't recognize DVD-R" #2, 12:53am Oct 14, 2005 CDT
If the color is still off, then it is an application problem. If not, it is a media problem. Verbatim is supposed to be the best, but maybe you got one from a rare bad batch.
If it is the media, try a different brand. See this thread for suggestions: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?7@@.68b79e4d/5
Then, burn the disc image to DVD. See this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Good luck!

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