Photo To Movie and iMovie: Poor quality movies

I am using Photo To Movie, iMovie as well as Keynote.
I am finding that when I burn PTM to movie either Quicktime or iMovie the quality is very bad, in particular on slides that have colors and text on them; these are distorted, while the actual photos are grainy.
I export (Make Movie) from PTM to Quicktime - DV(NTSC), High quality, 720x480, 29.97 fps, 16 bit stereo, 48,000 hz.
All photos are high quality ranging from 2 to 4 megs.
Any idea what could be the matter?
Thanks,
Tek

Thanks.
Didn't think of that because I'm new at using QT in this capacity.
It's always so simple.
Hope that's the problem.

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