Using 1280 x 720 HD video in a NTSC DV FCP project

Ok - My company is putting together a marching band DVD for a school. The footage has been shot by different volunteer parents with different recording formats on their cameras. Our job is to combine the footage into a multicamera shoot and put the whole finished product on a SD DVD.
A Majority of the footage we received is in standard def: 720 x 480. 29.97 DV NTSC
However, the wideshot footage is in the following HD format: 1280 x 720. 30 FPS H.264. It is a .mov file
So...
We created a sequence to match the SD format, rendered the wideshot footage to match that sequence and edited everything together.
We then exported using compressor with the traditional SD setting and burned the disc via DVD studio pro.
When we watch the footage on any TV (SD or HD), everything looks fine except for the wideshots (HD footage). There is a "trippy" or "robotic" look to any movement that occurs in these shots.
What have we done wrong? Is it related to the 30fps vs 29.97 FPS? I thought FCPs rendering automatically converts / fixes this.
What can be done to fix this problem?

The DV was interlaced, the HD is prgressive. That's one issue. You didn't see the motion artifacts on your computer because that's a progressiuve display. The MPEG2 DVD is interlaced.
Solving it? Hmm, I'll let some others try to make useful suggestions. Gotta go back to work myself.
bogiesan

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