My saved imovie project freezes on playback

This is very annoying,
I have been making i movie projects that are a mixture of short video clips and also photographs. I make the photos into slideshows in i movie and intersperse these with the short video clilps.
Anyway I have shared/saved the movie to quicktime and it freezes during playback but the audio keeps on going.
Here is the process I go through to save my movie...
Share>Quicktime>Expert Settings>Movie to QuickTime Movie.
When ever I have a mixture of photos and short videos it never saves without freeaing on playback. However I can save successfully to MPEG-4 and AVI but I am not satisfied with the quality of these and would like to save as a QuickTime movie as I want to be able to put it on a DVD.
I am exasperated!
I don't think it is anything to do with space on my hard drive as there is plenty and this was happening even when my mac was brand new!
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Thanks for your help Richard. I have exported the movie to idvd and that works, the thing is I want to be able to add other movies from i movie into the same dvd.
For example if I export my movie (of pics and videos) to idvd then try to export another it gets sent to a new idvd project and no the one I had previously exported to.
Am I making sense?
Maybe I am being stupid and there IS a simple way around this.
I tried making the photo slideshows in i photo then adding them to the movie project but the same problem arises - if I save it as a quicktime movie it freezes on playback.

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