Tearing on DVD

I have cut and exported a project from FCP as an mpeg4 movie adn everything looked great when i played it back on the computer. Then I burned it to idvd and when I play it, the image tears every time there is camera movement or movement within the frame. I cut stuff that was originally shot in pal, but I checked each clips properties and they all say NTSC 29.97 so I don't think that's the problems. Anyone have any thoughts on the subject?
dave

I have a reel that I am trying to cut together using
some pal stuff and some ntsc stuff. But the pal
stuff appears to be ntsc 29.97 according to the
properties listed. I outputed it and on the computer
it plays fine but when I burned it it tears.
How about the stuff you know started as NTSC?
F Shippey

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