Quality of slideshow.

I made a couple three minute slideshows. I set a theme and then exported it to facebook. Quality on facebook looked pretty good. Then I burned a copy to a DVD and when I watched it on the TV, the still pictures were not very sharp at all. Was there an issue with first posting it it on Mobile Me?
I know I had to choose a size. Does that set the stage for the clarity if i then want to do a DVD? I even tried burning it again and picking the largest file size.

It may have something to do with the way you export to DVD. I avoid sharing to DVD directly from iMovie.
Others have other methods, but I create DVD's that infrequently I don't recall them, so I tend to export at full size to AIC and use my AIC file to make the DVD. I think the way I do this creates equal quality to the other ways that others do it, although it temporarily takes up quite a bit of space (which I have more than enough of - but others might not).

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