Speeded up film in iMovie is jerky when using iDVD

The film I've created in iMovie HD uses speeded up and slowed down film which is smooth when played in iMovie. I've used iDVD to burn it to DVD, but when I play this, the smoothness of the original is gone, and there's a jerkiness to the motion.
Any suggestions for how I can keep the smoothness?
Thanks.

If your slow and fast effects play fine on your deinterlaced computer screen, but jerky on an interlaced TV, then that would seem to point in the direction of an interlaced/deinterlaced problem. iMovie renders deinterlaced video when it exports to iDVD. With iMovie 6.02 that caused slow/fast effects to play less smoothly on an interlaced TV. You might be experiencing a vestige of that bug. I have not used JES Deinterlacer, but I have heard that that freeware program works well to smooth out slow/fast effects from progressive material that is played on an interlaced TV. The website addy is www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html.
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