Slow Motion and iDVD

I have looked through various questions and answers for months now and have never been able to sort out the fact that iDVD won't create watchable DVDs of my .mov files if they contain slow motion. I'm using iDVD6.
I used to do this all the time on my old G4 iBook without any problems, but the encoding on that seems to have been updated as well.
It's infuriating to be able to watch a nice smooth movie in Quicktime at full resolution, then have iDVD create a rubbish DVD version with flickering and juddering. I video sports activity and use slow motion a lot.
I've tried switching between Best Performance and Quality, have tried creating a disk image first then burning slowly.
So many people seem to have huge frustrations trying to do simple things with iDVD. I have been a Mac fan for years, but my DVD problems and the swathe of DVD problems experienced by others has really tarnished my view of Apple. There is clearly a problem with the way iDVD encodes video, so where's the fix?
Should I just give up and use Toast? Any warnings about that?

Welcome to the forums.
Here are a couple ideas: If your video is under 60 min, use Best Performance for the highest resolution. Import your video from the iMovie file rather than exporting or converting the file (use the Import command or drag the file into your menu area).
Please advise where the .mov files originate; Quicktime is a container format and your .mov file can be more or less compressed... and break down during slow motion if it's substantially compressed or has a low frame rate.
John

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