Video Distortion after burning i.e. "tracing"

Hello all. I have been working on this project for a couple weeks now. I do a lot of "copy and paste" edits where people bring in dvd's and other media and want me to put together a demo disc or something of that sort. This high school student has brought me a bunch of basketball footage I have imported and created a nice dvd. While watching it in FCP and DVDSP the video looks fine. Once I push it to DVD there is a massive amount of distortion, in the form of "tracing" following the basketball players on the court, to the point where it has become nauseating. I have fooled around with my settings in DVDSP and have not been able to fix this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have my encoding setting set at Two Pass VBR
Bit rate - 7.6
Max Bit Rate 8.9
It is a short video compilation, maybe about 15-20 mins long
Thanks in advance.

nothing quite so dramatic. We can't see it but I'm guessing you're seeing interlacing artifacts. My guess is that the interlacing got out of step somewhere. The easiest thing is just to make your video progressive out of compressor. then the DVD player can deal with it.
How are you getting your video from FCP to DVD SP? The ideal way is to go through compressor. And in there you can switch your rendered output to progressive, that is remove the interlacing. Of course it's a guess from here. I'd do a test of one of the tracks and put it back on the DVD and see what happens. You'll have to make sure you remove the old track from the DVD.

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