Sophie's Choice - Bad Stills or Bad Video

I created several projects in FCE 4.01 that I would like to burn to DVD (using iDVD). The projects consist of standard DV footage from my old Sony camcorder - mixed with .jpg files that I imported from a still camera.
If I export the project from FCE using File:Export:Quicktime Movie - the titles and photo quality is poor. The poor quality is evident in both the .mov file viewed in Quicktime as well as the final product on the DVD (burned at Professional Quality in iDVD).
If I export through File:Export:Using Quicktime conversion and use the setting suggested here (http://www.dvcreators.net/how-do-i-export-a-high-quality-movie/) I get perfect photos and titles (and huge files) but the video is choppy.
I know the poor output quality subject appears just about every day but I have not been able to find the magic bullet for me... Anyway to get the best of both worlds ?

Going off at a tangent . . . . . paradoxically, both the "High Quality" and the "Professional Quality" settings produce the lowest quality!
This is because they are designed for projects over 65 minutes long which need a lower bitrate to squeeze them onto a DVD. Pro Quality has multi-pass encoding technology in an attempt to improve the lower quality you get with longer DVDs.
However, if your DVD is under 65 minutes long, "Best Performance" will give the highest quality DVD as everything is encoded at the maximum bitrate.
Another advantage is that it will encode your DVDs 2 or 3 times faster!
So for sub-65 minute projects, "Best Performance" is a no-brainer, to use the trans-Atlantic vernacular - which is not a means of transport!.

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