iDVD burning problems

[dogtonharrants]

Hello,

I have made a movie on iMovie HD (using a Mac Book Pro) and have burned it onto DVD using iDVD. When I play the DVD on my TV or another iMac there is distortion during any rapid movement, e.g. a quick moving arm appears jagged and lined. There is also a slight blurriness to the general picture (the sound is faultless).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this distortion is occurring?

Thank you very much in advance.

Dan

 

[dogtonharrants]

iMovie HD films appear distorted when buurned using iDVD

..ah, there have been a lot of views to is this thread - surely this must be common problem and therefore hopefully easily fixed. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

(I have made a movie on iMovie HD (using a Mac Book Pro) and have burned it onto DVD using iDVD. When I play the DVD on my TV or another iMac there is distortion during any rapid movement, e.g. a quick moving arm appears jagged and lined. There is also a slight blurriness to the general picture (the sound is faultless).
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[coryatcf]

iDVD Video Movement Distortion

I am am experiencing the same problem, I think: a kind of rippling wave of distortion with black lines whenever there is rapid movement? I am using iMovie '09/iDVD on a brand-new iMac with all the current software updates.

I am using MPEGStreamclip (excellent freeware) to rip video from DVD recorder discs and convert it to MP4 files iMovie '09 can use. Everything looks fine in iMovie; it's only when I burn a disc in iDVD that the problem appears in playback, so I'm guessing it has something to do with how iDVD is re-encoding back to MPEG-2 for the DVD.

After some frustration trying the various "project settings" in iDVD, I think the "professional quality" setting actually did produce a disc without the problem. I say "I think" because I went through a few stages of conversion (even getting another good piece of freeware, ffmpeX, involved) and by that time was trying everything I could think of just to get it to work, and kind of lost track...

Anyway, I am retracing my steps for another project and will report back. I would really like to know what the problem actually is, though, and why iDVD has it to start with. Any insights, anybody?