Problems in image creating a DVD with IDVD

Hello to everybody
I am triying to make a DVD with a quicktime movie file that I created with FinalCut. This file is in 16/9 and looks great when I play ot in the computer using quicktime player. When I create de DVD and play it some quality is lost and the image is like jumping a little bit, I know the lost of quelity can be a normal thing due to compression, but the image jumping ... Can i resolve that?
Thanks a lot for your help

What format is the output from Final Cut?
If you have FCP, you should also have Compressor and DVD Studio Pro. If that is the case, you'll get much better results exporting your work from FCP using "current settings" then bringing that file into Compressor and using one of the DVD presets that is appropriate for the length of the material to encode your m2v (video) and ac3 (audio) components. Once encoded, bring them into DVDSP and build/burn your disk.
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I forgot to mention that looking through the support forums at the time (November 2005 and weeks later), it was suggested as a run-around, to instead burn your project without actually using iDVD.
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Second suggestion was to create a "Disc Image" directly from iDVD-- nope.
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Again, when I get the chance, I will try those too. Seeing if I can archive my project and/or create a disc image with the settings at "Best Performance"-- the solution I came upon --instead of set at "Best Quality."
I'll report back here when I can.
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