Problems obtaining a good DVD burn/disc

This might be the wrong place to be asking this, but hopefully someone here can help me solve the problem of getting a dvd burnded disc of a slideshow to look good. I realize that the dvd will never have the level of resolution of the original HD show from computer, but the artifacts are whats killing this.
After creating a slideshow, it is exported as qt.mov file, where in the past I have then imported into iDVD or Toast to make final menus and then burn. One of the things I seemed to be plagued with are what I call "dancing pixels" during pan and zooms (hate the term ken burns effect). As I understand things iDVD re-encodes the data at mpeg-2 standards before burning, and in preferences I have set it at highest quality vs best performance.
So the real question here is this, would I be able to control the mpeg-2 standards for export better than what iDVD allows me to do? And if so would I then be able to eliminate the "dancing pixels"?
Thanks for any helpful info in advance.
Rob

If you intend to use DVD-SP to create the DVD, then you can use Compressor (included as part of FCP Studio 5 nowadays) to specify a number of MPEG-2 parameters. But even with that, if you pan (or zoom) slowly enough, the edge of the picture, or other horizontal/vertical elements) will dance between the scan lines of an interlaced picture.
You don't have much control of encoding in iDVD.
Other thoughts are to determine the background color for when the picture edges are visible. Black is the worst; you might consider some other background, even a textured one, to relieve this symptom of "dancing pixels" (I like that term
Ed

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