DVD burn

Hello I am attempting to burn a DVD using Toast 10.0.6 The video is: .mov, high def, 3 min, 723 mb
When I toast the file, the resulting video has distortions on the whites and lower quality. Suggestions?

Thanks,
Michael

Can you post a screenshot? Your footage is 16:9, I'm I correct? Did it come out as a 16:9 in letterbox?

Yes it is originally in 16:9 and comes out as 16:9..Tried to do screen cap, but it comes out as a checkerboard pattern..??

The DVD will be about 150 MB and SD so of course it will have less quality than the original.
In what codec is the .mov? Compressor generally does better than Toast.
If the original is noisy, denoising it first can yield great improvements in the DVD.

Dennis Couzin
Berlin, Germany