Subtle horizontal lines in HDV footage exported from iMovie 06

Hello!
I just bought a Cannon HV-30, which I'll be using to film an instructional DVD. I'm hoping to use iMovie 06 to edit, and was planning on using iDVD until I realized how tricky DVD authoring is, if you want to sell thousands of copies of your DVD and have any hope of them playing on people's DVD players.
At any rate, I still want to be able to burn drafts of my film using iDVD. I tried doing this yesterday, but my footage was distorted both in the iDVD preview, and in the DVD I burned. The distortion looked different depending on how big the preview window was. When it was fairly small, I'd get this wavy, ripply effect whenever the camera panned. When I maximized the window, and also in the DVD (which was full-screen), I'd get a more subtle jagged edge to vertical lines--every-other-line on the monitor would stick out, like a fine-toothed comb. When there wasn't movement in the film, things looked pretty good, except for a bit of horizontal-lines visible.
I made my first DVD by using the Export... iDVD function. After I read on this forum that this doesn't produce the best quality, I tried importing the iMovie project into iDVD, but I got similar results.
Any ideas?
Thanks a ton,
Rob

DVDs look best on the system they were designed for: CRT TV sets with 640x480 square pixels NTSC (768x576 square pixels PAL)
When 'blownup' in size on large computer monitors or large HD TV sets the image quality will be less than optimum - that's why the new Blu-ray were created.
There are steps you can take when shooting your video that will help. Remember that mpg compression works on the differences between frames and anything that creates unnecessary difference between frames will cause reduced mpg compressed quality. So: use a tripod to avoid camera shake; make all your pans slow and smooth; and shoot with plenty of light to avoid the 'grain' caused by electronic noise in low light situations.

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===== Tuesday, 24 October 2006 22:56:45 Europe/London =====
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Error 2000-2009 (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2009, and so on)
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