Quality of Picture

I tried editing a clip, and I notice after i burn it out from iDVD, the quality is not as good. I have already set everythign to the best.
the file on iMovie is about 7gb (10 to 15mins clip after rediting)
However, after I burn the DVD thru iDVD, the file is only around 900mb and I notice a decrease in picture quality. Anyway that I can solve this?
You knwo how for DVD's that we buy the quality is much better.
Also one more question, ater I edit teh clip and play it on TV, it looks like it's from a DV. It looks nothing like movie quality. (I notive movie quality seems to have a more warm colour)
Is there a filter or any effects I should add?
I don;t want my clip to look like some secondary school project...
Thanks!!!!

is it a imported from miniDV clip or a still?
exporting from iM to iDVD can cause "artifacts" in stills, search forum for "jaggies"...
and: avoid any "inbetween" exports with lossy compressor - iApps use the same codec as your camera, "dv", so stay with that ....
iDVD uses for projects <60min the maximum bitrate of 8kB/sec standards allow (… and wastes bandwidth for PCM audio....), which should result in a very good pic quality... other mpeg2 compressors use more elaborated algorithms => $$$$, you got iDVD for free with your Mac...
movie-look:
sure, a 150M$ Hollywood product looks a "little" better then the average Daddy-does-movie product as I can create with my <500$ equipment;
the basic effects to create a "movie" feeling:
* blurr - a fim-pic is never as sharp as a video-pic; esp. field-of-depth is much more variated with a "real" camera...
* colors - we're used to see "processed" picture in movies, I lately quote the movie "Traffic" with really extreme colors..
* noise/grain - a video pic has a defined number of pixel; a film has zillions of grains, in every 30 frames per second... pro tools adding movie-look add noise to video pix...
* progression vs interlace - download for free JES Deinterlacer; export final project from iM as QT/expert settings/dv, import to JESD, choose "deinterlace", burn resulting file with IDVD... a very simple way to add "movie look"
summary:
record with "long lense" to add field-of-depth effects (no way to add in post-production)
deinterlace
add black borders/cinema effect , very simple but effective
try the add-noise effects/plug-ins from the usual plug-in supporter as geethree.com, imovieplugins.com

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