QT movie mostly black after burn/Best way from DV /w 12 bit audio to MPEG2?

Sorry for combining two questions.....
My Quick Time movie looks fine in the QT player but when added to iDVD and then burned, a few frames look OK and then it mostly goes black, as if a terrible filter has been applied. I'm running OS10.4.6 with QT7.0 and iDVD6. The QT movie was output from Avid free DV cause the original had 12 bit audio which foiled iMovie (and One-Step iDVD). Once it's in QT format, this should no longer be an issue, right? And this problem is with the video, not audio.....
Are there free QT to MPEG2 compressers out there? If so, I will burn the DVD myself...
And what's the best and cheapest app to go directly from 12 bit audio DV source footage to an MPEG2 output movie appropriate for DVD? I don't need fancy editing tools - I just wanna get my footage onto DVD.
Any help is appreciated!

I can't download from the Sony because of the fried FireWire IC... Any tape recorded in the Sony is then imported from the Canon. BTW, the new version of the ZR100 is ZR500.
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the QT movie going black after iDVD burn? Think that is due to QT7?
7.1 fixed two problems for me. Try it.
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