Poor export quality from imovie to idvd

Can someone help me. I have perfect photos with iphoto, transfer them to imovie (still clear), but when i finally send them to idvd and create my movie, all of my photos get digitalized. I've checked all 3 programs, and they all appear to be set at the highest quality. Is there a way to create a dvd with the same quality of photos that I have with my other programs?
Thanks, Brent

A few things to consider:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#slideshow

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"If there are unrendered clips in the Timeline when we tell iMovie to Share (Export) a project to iDVD, iMovie will ask permission to render those clips. (Rendering converts the clips to video clips.)
These may include still photos, photos imported with the Ken Burns checkbox turned OFF. Photos imported with the Ken Burns checkbox ON are rendered by Ken Burns; iMovie won't ask to render them again.
If we grant permission to render clips, iMovie will render them with very poor quality, adding lots of "jaggies" to the photos. It's a bug.
To avoid the bug, do NOT grant permission to render when iMovie asks. Then iDVD will render them for us, which it does with good quality.
So, to avoid the bug do any ONE of these:
1. Import all photos with the Ken Burns checkbox ON.
2. If iMovie asks permission to render when exporting the project, do NOT grant permission.
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Karl"

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Not sure what advice you have been given and how you have interpreted it.
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It seems like many people experience similar problems, judging by postings (unanswered, as far as I can tell). It also appears that basically everyone using iMovie has this problem, but most people are content with poor quality DVDs, or are they?
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Hi
A.
If You included photos into Your movie and used Share/Export to iDVD. iMovie
asks to render the material = Destructive in two ways:
• Losy iDVD project
• Original iMovie IS HARMED: Photos needs to be re-imported and re-edited.
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B.
There are a major difference between a Mac Monitor and a Standard TV (much less
sharpness due to 525 - 625 lines (NTSC or PAL))
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I just have a quick question for you all... (I want to see if this is normal - I'm on a deadline and this is kind of freaking me out)
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when you export from iMovie to iDVD, does iDVD normally give you any 'heads-up' that it is working? how long does it normally take to open the project in iDVD?)
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What you should see is iDVD opening and asking you to create a new project, It will suggest naming it the same as the iMovie project.
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Hi
A. I do not use "Share to iDVD" - BUT "Share to Media Browser" and as Large (not HD or other res.) - Works much better.
B. When did it hang ?
a. On Export from iMovie to iDVD
b. When DVD is played on DVD-Player
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