Poor footage on fast movers

I shot some runners with my Sony Z7U in HD. Brought the clips in CS3 and bruned with Encore as a standard dvd. The quality is poor and I suspect it has something to do with the motion. I brought the clips in via firewire. Should I have used my blackmagic card with HDMI for uncompressed? Any other thoughts. THanks

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