DVD is a bit "smeary", "choppy"

[adom01]

I have a Sony HC39E DV camera (16:9 format). I created a couple of ULEAD projects, edited them (mostly jist deleting unwanted scenes), and burnt to DVD. This produced a result that was OK-ish, but the sound was a little bit choppy and the picture has a tendency to "smear" when the camera pans a little quickly.

Is this likely to be
a) A fact of life
b) A problem with my DVD burner (or computer, which is 1.7 GhZ Centrino laptop with 512 Mb)
c) Fixable by changing ULEAD settings from the default?

I'm hoping the answer is c) , in which case can anyone help or point me at a good reference site?

[Oh - I assume it isn't relevant but my previous experience was with the freed emo version, I have now bought the full V9 version]

Thanks!

Adom

[jchunter]

Adom,
The answer is most likely (C), if you are not following the workflow recommended in the sticky post at the top of the forum.

John