Still to Still Dissolve Pixelation

Hello All:
Running FCP5, Compressor 1 or 2, DVDSP4.0.2. Have "slideshow" of stills with cross dissolves between, compression markers at end of each dissolve. Compressorized on both versions of compressor (2 machines) many times with different settings - vbr, cbr, hi-lo bitrate, de-interlace, etc... Mp2 looks almost ok on some of these settings but all are bad when muxxed to final DVD. Dissolves are super pixel-ee and it looks like my I-frames at end of each dissolve are causing some funky stutter. I have done this kind of thing many times before, same problems but within acceptable limits. Would use slideshow option in DVDSP but I like to pan/scan (a'la Ken Burns effect but not as often and more subtle). Any suggestions on making this thing look nicer? Thanks in advance for your help.
Josh
G5 Dual 2GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   New System, Have worked Mac 10 yrs

If your final playback device is going to output to a TV how does the image look on a properly adjusted TV monitor? It could be that you are chasing a problem that will hardly be visible on a TV. I've seen a good number of commercial DVDs (movies) that don't look very good on my Mac's LCD display but which are perfectly acceptable when shown on my big-screen TV. Gamma and display calibration issues can make a big difference in the apparent noisiness of the image. That may be one reason why you think the .m2v looks okay but the final DVD does not.

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