PAL - NTSC, Looks fine on comp, bad on TV

Hi All,
My Setup: Quad G5, 2.5ghz, 4.5GB ram, Final Cut Studio (all versions completely up to date)
I know there are a million issues in converting PAL -> NTSC, but I was hoping someone could possibly give me a direction to start looking..
I used Nattress filters to convert PAL timeline footage to NTSC. I burned a DVD and it looks really good on my computer. Then when i play it on a TV, the motion is TERRIBLE. Like it is jumpy and has trails everywhere.
What types of settings or issues could be causing the significant discrepancy between what the converted footage looks like on comp versus TV? I know that square/rectangle pixels are an issue, but I wonder if this goes beyond that? It doesn't seem to be just an aspect issue, but I could be wrong...
Thanks in advance,
Jason

Hi:
I found a good preset settings to use with Compressor in an old thread from Hanumang (I cabbot find now the link, sorry).
Start with the standard NTSC preset in Compressor, in the group Advanced Format Conversion and check from the following list and change appropiates settings (is a copy of my custom PAL to NTSC preset):
========================
Name: DV NTSC Conversion Hanumag
Description: DV/DVCam NTSC with 48kHz stereo audio
File Extension: mov
Audio Encoder
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo (L R), 48,000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls:
Retiming: Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Motion Adaptive
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Bottom Field First
Codec Type: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Scan Mode: Interlaced
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 99
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Temporal quality: 0
Min. temporal quality: 50
========================
Make a short test and compare with your previous results. The encoding is quite slow, but you get very good results (and it's free).
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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Message was edited by: Hakaman

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It looks OK...just paranoid... just want to know if im missing a trick....????
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Bengt W wrote
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BAD
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