Sound distortion from iDVD

I am putting together some clips of my son's highschool band performances taken with a SONY Handycam DCR-HC36 and will be burning them to a DVD to distribute to fellow band parents. The video has been downloaded via firewire to an iMac G5 and the editing is being done in iMovie. At first I tried burning a DVD through Toast 6. The quality of the output through Toast is generally good when the camera is focused steadily on the band or zoomed in and out. But when the camera is panned across the band, highlighting the individual players, there is a lot of visual "flutter" or "vibration" as the camera moves across the group. The distortion is not really noticeable when viewing the DVD on a computer monitor but becomes pretty painful when watching the disc on the larger TV screen. I tried outputing the file through iDVD and the video problems magically cleared up but the sound is distorted and not usable. I love the idea of using iDVD since it has the chapter options but cannot have such poor sound. Why would the audio from Toast be so much better? I looked in the iDVD application but couldn't find anyway to modify the sound output. Are there any solutions to this problem other than upgrading to Toast 7 and hoping it handles the video better?
Thanks,
Reid McCallister

But when the camera is panned across the band, highlighting the individual players, there is a lot of visual "flutter" or "vibration" as the camera moves across the group. The distortion is not really noticeable when viewing the DVD on a computer monitor but becomes pretty painful when watching the disc on the larger TV screen.
The mpg-2 compression used on DVDs looks at frame-to-frame differences - fast pans and zooms have a lot of difference between frames and don't compress well (as you have found out).
I tried outputing the file through iDVD and the video problems magically cleared up but the sound is distorted and not usable. I love the idea of using iDVD since it has the chapter options but cannot have such poor sound. Why would the audio from Toast be so much better?
If the iDVD video was better than the Toast videos, you should try Toast again at a higher quality setting.
Toast uses compressed Dolby audio - iDVD uses uncompressed PCM audio. Perhaps your DVD player doesn't 'like' the uncompressed Audio - it does present the player with a higher-bit rate to decode. ... or it could be something completely else ...

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