Poor resolution when burning in IDVD

I'm trying to create a slide show using ken burns effects, transitions, music and then burn to a dvd to share with family. I was told the best way to do this is to create the slide show in I-movie, share it to I-dvd, and then burn it. When playing back the dvd on my computer or in a dvd player hooked up to my tv, the video (images) are horrible. The images have ripples in them. I use the highest quality encoding in the project info tab. When viewing the slide show in i-movie, it looks great. I'm using dvd+r discs. Any thoughts on how to fix this or is that the best I can do with i-dvd? I've noticed in this forum that other people seem to be experiencing the same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I thought I'd mention a few things...
1) Sometimes using high def pictures causes problems. The solution, to help prevent flicker for instance, is to use a "guassian blur" of about 5 pixels in photoshop. I assume aperature allows you to blur. Reducing the sharpness just slightly can help a great deal with some issues. Take a good look at your current project. Are there some photos which look better than others? If so, take note of those qualities. Sometimes light, color, texture, contrast, lens length make big differences for me. After doing this a while, you almost develop a sixth sense as to which photos will be problematic.
2) Look at the speed with which are using the KB effect. KB will look a lot better if it's done slowly. Of course it's not as interesting but it reduces problems.
3) Save as a disc image first, to make sure the problem is not in the burning or in the disc. Most in this forum recommend dvd -r for the final burn. Verbatim are very popular. And burn at 4x or less.
4) I have tried photo to movie, and it's a nice app. I did find the colors grayed out, however. If you use photo to movie, you'll want to punch up the color in photoshop (aperature) before importing into photo to movie. I prefer imovie 6 myself.
I hope these comments are helpful. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

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I have worked for several months on making my first Imovie. It is about 1hr in length. It combines both narration, video, soundtrack and still images. When I previewed the project on imovie looked great. I can also export thru quicktime and it looks good, but not as good as it does in imovie. When I followed the directions on how to export to Idvd, I was unaware of how poorly the finished project looked in Idvd. I burned it and was let down as all my titles where pixelated and the still images are combing real bad. Also some of the images are jerky in the ken burns effect. I find this frustrating as I can save it as a quicktime file and it looks pretty good (but not as good as in imovie). It appears to me that everything I have tried as far as importing to idvd looks horrible when Idvd gets done with it. In fact even the Idvd menu I made looks pixelated and horrible. I am making this dvd to sell to others and to present at talks I am giving. The quality is so poor I am thinking about bagging the whole project. I noticed on the forums regarding both idvd and imovie many of the questions about the quality degredation in idvd dont get answered. Or when they do get answered, the answer is to purchase final cut or more software in general. What I want to know is can I make my excellent looking imovie look acceptable in idvd? If not, why? Why would mac make a option to make a movie project look good in imovie, but the only way to export it is to make it look horrible? Also, is there a way to make a dvd in idvd that looks as good as my Imovie project (without dropping 1,000$ for more software which I am not going to do as now I don't trust it until I see it first)? What am I missing here?

Hi Adam,
Just some general comments about exporting from iMovie '09. From posts on the forum, and from my own experience, it's best not to use Apple's preset export option "Share to iDVD". You may not have used this, but it produces an AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) movie that doesn't look good when burned through iDVD, for some reason. Odd, considering that iMovie edits in this format. _The option "Share to Media Browser" gives much better results._
You don't mention what format your source footage is (to the best of my recollection). This may have a bearing on the final result (burned DVD). Is it DV or AVCHD or some other format? iMovie '09 has a reputation for producing less than stellar results with DV footage, due to the way it handles interlaced material. AVCHD footage turns out quite well on DVD after editing in iMovie.
If you have not already tried this, export using "Share to Media Browser". In iDVD, from the Media tab, drag your movie into the background area of the iDVD theme, then proceed to set up the DVD as usual. When sharing to the Media Browser, you have a range of sizes to select from. Try Large (960x540) and also HD (1280x720). I've used both but see little difference, if any, in the final DVD. But I do get quite good results with both. The picture is softer and less saturated when compared with the original AVCHD footage viewed via the camcorder on an HD TV. This is to be expected, given one is HD and the other SD, of course. But it shouldn't be as bad as you are describing.
There are many posts about DVD quality on the forum. As you would be aware, some offer very good advice. Try different methods using a short test project to see what gives the best results for you. Look out for an e-book by Steve Mullen - not free, but some good tips there.
Hope this helps in some way. Quality issues can be frustrating!
John
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Welcome to the forum.
As Steve points out, a DVD-Video is set in resolution, to 720 x 480 (for NTSC), in either Standard 4:3, or Widescreen 16:9. That is as good as it can get, and is not a limitation of PrE, but of the DVD-Video specs, which were written a long time ago.
The best that one can get is to play that DVD-Video on an up-rezzing DVD player, or most BD players, that also have up-rezzing, to an HD TV monitor. Those players have dedicated chips, JUST for up-rezzing.
Then, and per Peru Bob's questions, I attain the ultimate Still Images to DVD-Video, by doing my Scaling in Photoshop, and using either the Bicubic Sharper, or Bicubic Smoother Scaling algorithms. I Scale my Camera RAW Images to match my Project's Frame Size, and Crop, where necessary to match the Aspect Ratio of my Images, to the Aspect Ratio of the Project, i.e. if going to a 16:9 Widescreen, I will lose some pixels top and bottom, but I account for that, per my asesthetic.
Note: some PrE users insist that the Scaling in PrE is as good as Photoshop's, but my critical eyes point to using PS. Also, I do NOT use JPEG, which is a lossy, compressed format, and will Save_As PSD from Photoshop, for ultimate quality.
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Not too many years ago we were all thinking how great it was we could finally produce our own SD DVDs. Now we want more. One of these years - when the true HD DVD system finally end up with one winning approach - and the equipment prices come down, we'll be able to make some form of HD DVD.
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I had to force quit twice and then ran Repair Permissions. Should have I trashed iDVD prefs and if so, is there only one to trash?
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Three thoughts.
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