Portion of DVD Low Quality and Pixalated

I am burning a FCP project to dvd and a portion of the video is low quality, it looks significantly degraded and pixelated. It doesnt seem to loo this way in FCP. Colors are great, the picture is just has really chunky pixels. The rest of the project is fine, and its a weird because its a multi camera shoot, and all the different camera angles during the segment seem to be affected.
Any thoughts?

This post has helped alot. I think after reading peoples descriptions it is an encoding problem. Its MiniDV footage from a Panasonic DVX100. Tranfered via Firwire and edited in FCP. Then Exported as a Quicktime movie, with Current Settings, then put into a Dvd and selected as First Play.
I am convinced its not my footage, if I encode the dvd in iDVD the section in question looks fine, but artifacts appear in other sections. i have deleted and rebuilt all the render files several times. So I am in the process of using Compressor to output a mpeg2 file that I will use to build the dvd, instead o f just the straight export from FCP. I set it on Best Quality for a 90 minute dvd. I am hoping this will solve the problem, but not sure, will know tomorrow.
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http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t63/shadon1nja/FixingRenderQuality_zps124306a5.png
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