Poor Resolution in IDVD

here's a screen shot: http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/images/twinsexample1.jpg
As you see, it looks somewhat pixalated & solarized. Several others have expressed similar frustrations.
I have used Reflective Black and Travel as themes. Video & H.264 Codex & 640 x 480.
Seems to look ok H.264 320 x 240.
help, telephone support has not a clue!
Thanks, Hal

iDVD is part of the iLife suite, meant to handle material from iM, which is a DV-editor, meant to handle miniDV content, which is 'dv' as codec...
(what a sentence.........)
h264 is highly compressed material, a playback codec... nice to be watched on computer screens.. .
iDVD has to convert that into mpeg2, to make standards-conform videoDVDs... videoDVDs are for Tv-delivery, e.g. 'interlaced' ... which creates in your case those naughty 'lines' in the faces of your beloved ones... (aside: nice family )
the compression of h264 creates that 'flat areas' in the blue sky, upper right in your example.. flat colors get compressed more than detailed areas.. h264 is a lossy codec, so, the infos get lost (for ever.... )...
recommendations:
what is the source of your material? if miniDV - use iMovie for editing, avoid useless inbetween compression (as h264), import straight into iDVD... no loss of quality.
if your source is stills, use again iM, or iPhoto (or iDVD) to create a 'movie', again, let iDVD do the compression..
if your source is non-iLife-conform footage (e.g. harddrive corders, stills with 'movie' ambitions, etc), there's no way to get rid of those compression artifacts.. they are done in your recording device...

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