Shimmering once iMovie burned using iDVD

Hi - I have created a presentation (both scanned photos and video clips) in iMovie 6 and burned it using iDVD. The presentation looks great on iMovie, but after I've burned it and watched it on my DVD, there seems to be a "shimmering" effect on some of the photos. Originally I thought it was something to do with the way I scanned the photos. But when I attempted burning it subsequent times, a different set of photos seemed to have developed the shimmering effect. For example, on the first DVD, clips #50-75 had shimmering and in the second DVD, it was clips #60-78 (the shimmering seems to be moving along later in the presentation). Any suggestions on what I have to do to avoid this? Many thanks....

Hi - thanks for the suggested reading. I'm prepared to save the clips at a smaller resolution (640x480) but I'm still confused - why does the "shimmering" effect strike different clips at different times when I burn it on iDVD? If an image would be prone to "shimmering" then shouldn't the effect show up each time the project is burned? Conversely, if it burned properly once before, why would it begin to "shimmer" when the project is burned a second time?

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