Why do my slow motion clips look so bad in iDVD6?

I'm not sure if this is an iMOVIE or iDVD issue but when I burn DVDs the slow motion sections look really jittery; much worse than they were in my movies that were made from the programs I installed in 2004. Any suggestions?

Hi Chris:
Pretty much an iMovie problem..read this discussion and pay special attention to anything Matti Haveri says..
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1160542&#1160542
Sue

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Thanks, I've tried a couple from everyone's suggestions; from frame blend, to motion blur, and to the optical flow (in Motion).
The problem is that with cloud time lapse video in slow motion there is still some level of "jumpyness" from one frame (one time lapse frame, not frame in the video file) to the other.
With optical flow, it is quite nice, but it makes it move incredibly smooth from one frame, but then pauses, and then incredibly smooth to the next, so it's not really usable for cloud time lapse video.
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I edited shots in my sequence, it is a montage of slow motion shots each around 1sec. long at 50% speed. I want to letterbox the shots and treat each with a filter. Strobe them or glow effect, etc. I am opening the effects window and dragging the filter icon onto the clip on my sequence. Then I double click the clip on my time line and open it in the viewer to adjust the filter. When I do this I can not see the filter effect. It's as if there is not an effect on the clip. Is it because I am trying to put a filter on a clip that is at 50% speed? Do I have to put it on the clip before I change the speed?

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