Shimmering of photos

I made some movies in iMovie with photos and video clips. I used the Ken Burns effect for the pictures. All looks good in iMovie. Once transferred to iDVD and burned though, there is a significant shimmering (like waves) of the photos, especially as they are about to move on to the next photo. They look pretty good iDVD although can make out a little shimmering on parts of some photos.

Having completed many projects with moving images from iPhoto to iMovie, using several tracks of music and background sound and burning with iDVD with great pictures and sound with Panther and iLife 4, I am dismayed at the final product with Tiger and iLife 5. Having just burned my 5th DVD and 4th disk image I cannot get the same quality as before. On my 17 inch Apple monitor playback there is pixelation in images where there should be none. iPhoto discussion suggest rendering when bringing photos into iMovie. Is it a KB problem? Many of the photos look washed out, including some I have used before with good result. Totally unexpected. I know about the difference from iPhoto forward. But surely this is not what was intended. Any solutions? Thanks.

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(please try this link: http://imovieplugins.com/plugs/noisefiltercombi.html )
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