[MacDV] iDVD3 quality issues

[Erica Sadun]

>I hope you'll bear with me. I am a little confused.
>
>I have just completed a one-hour travel video in FCP 3.0, and 
>subsequently burned several DVDs with iDVD3, using Mac System 
>10.2.3. The project accumulated over 40 gigs by the time I was ready 
>to burn. The result is adequate but disappointing in one respect: 
>the video quality comes close to the original DV footage, but 
>reveals at times a gauzy pixellation in certain shots. I am 
>wondering if this is a natural limit of the compression software, or 
>if I have made some errors along the way.

Pixelation usually occurs when there's too much action in
footage for the compressor to display.

You can use a better compressor (Apple's Compressor is part
of FCP4 and DVDSP2) with a dual-pass variable bit rate algorithm
but then you'd need DVDSP to author the disc. iDVD doesn't import
pre-compressed footage

-- Erica