What's causing this drop in quality?

I've sent my sequence from FCP 10.1.4 to Compressor 4.1.3 to make a audio and video file to then go into Toast (for a Dual layer DVD)
In the preview window, why am I seeing this jaggedness? Pay attention to the shirts on the men no stage. Screen shot here: http://imgur.com/uqfJz3m
Thanks

Good. Glad it worked.
I don't work with optical media much any more, but I have found the presets that FCPX uses to produce very good image quality.
It is, however, the same encoding engine that Compressor uses and the settings are apparently the same as Compressor's default settings.
I believe that the reason you got those weird images in the preview side was some sort of glitch introduced by the Send-tot Compressor process. I've never been a fan of that workflow and nearly always export a master file. If it's very large, I'll just trash it when I'm through since I have the original media from the camera and the project to quickly revisit if necessary.
Thanks for letting us know.
Russ

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