QT Pro, What format produces the closest quality to HD

Hello Experts,
I need a bit of guidance here with exporting slide shows from Motion Pictures HD (comes with Toast 7) to QT Pro and then back to Toast to burn DVD's. I have burned countless disc, countless ways with different codecs and their subsequent bit rates and various parameters and am still not quite satisfied with the results for resolution. Perhaps I am expecting too much after viewing the slide show direct from G5/Motion Picutres HD/DLP or PC monitor but surely there is a way of getting a higher level of detail onto DVD's?
The best approach so far that I have found is to export into QT Pro @ 1368x768 as jpeg images with the Best compression set and HQ Export. I have tried Pal, NTSC, H.264, tiff, graphics, and a litany of other codecs but perhaps I am not optimizing the files for best quality.
Curiously when viewing some of the .mov's directly from QT such as Pal or NTSC codecs the show looks way different from the burned disc, and much worse I might add. On the other hand when I export as jpegs to QT and viewing directly with QT the show is awesome until I burn the DVD and the res drops again. All images initially were 1024x768 ppi, jpegs at highest setting in Photoshop.
Thanks in advance.

Currently, there is no way that you can produce a standards-based HD DVD, so it's a little difficult to understand what you are trying to achieve. NTSC video DVDs are limited to 720 x 480 resolution so you can't get HD quality with a standard video DVD. DVD Studio Pro 4 allows you to create an Apple proprietary form of HD DVDs, but you need a G5 and QuickTime 7 in order to view these discs (as well as DVD Studio Pro 4 to create them).
However, it you want to create a very dynamic, movie-based, video/photo slide show at the highest possible resolution then I'd suggest H.264. But you'll need a fairly robust G5 if you want smooth, high-frame-rate playback.
Otherwise, just stick with JPEG in either a movie format (Motion JPEG) or as a series of still photos using Tiger's built-in slide show feature (or similar software). The latter (original still photos) viewed with a slide show application would probably give you the highest quality but it limits what you can do with motion and special effects.
As for Motion JPEG, I just took a series of 1680 x 1050 JPEG stills and opened them as an image sequence in the QuickTime Pro Player and then I exported that as a Motion JPEG A high quality movie at the same resolution and frame rate as the original image sequence and I couldn't tell any difference between the original JPEG stills and the finished Motion JPEG movie. But, of course, there is no way you can get that kind of quality on a standard video DVD.
If you want to create a standard video DVD then you will be limited to a resolution of approximately 720 x 480 and as far as sharpness and resolution it probably won't make much difference what format or codec you choose before you actually create your DVD (i.e. just import the original JPEG photos). Also, depending upon the tools you use to create your DVD you may or may not want to rescale the vertical dimensions in order to compensate for NTSC's non-square pixels.<small><hr width="75%"><small>If this suggestion helps in any way, a confirmation or acknowledgment would be appreciated, since that would also help others who may be having the same difficulty. Do for others as you would have them help you.<center>Thanks for sharing, Waymen.</center></small>

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