I just finished my first DVD project using VV3. The results were fine except for a couple of problems:
1: In 4 of the 23 videos I made, any movement in the picture appeared to stutter when the burned DVD is played on an external DVD player. Why those 4 is a mystery since all 23 videos were recorded from my VCR to a digital camera, then captured onto my PC in AVI files. I fixed the problem on those 4 videos by changing the field order parameter to Upper Field First instead of Lower Field First when rendering them to MPEG2.
2. There are times in a few of the videos where I added a segment of video that I wanted instead of the footage in the original video. So to accomplish this, I inserted an empty video track at the top and then copied and pasted video segments into a couple of spots on that track. Since this video track is on top, it will override the primary video on the secondary video track when it gets to those spots in the track. Works fine except those short segments on video track one will stutter when played on my external DVD player after I burn the disc. I resolved the other stuttering (in problem #1 above) by changing the field order. But how can I change the field order on one video track and have a different field order on another track? I doubt it's possible, so what it going on here? And you want to know what really makes this strange? The video segments I copy and paste to video track one are taken from the primary video (from the second track). So it's not like I am importing some foreign video into the project. Yes, I tried dropping the segments down into the secondary track and deleting track one, but it still stutters in those spots when played in the DVD player after the rendered files are burned to DVD.
So there you go, a major mystery. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Doug
1: In 4 of the 23 videos I made, any movement in the picture appeared to stutter when the burned DVD is played on an external DVD player. Why those 4 is a mystery since all 23 videos were recorded from my VCR to a digital camera, then captured onto my PC in AVI files. I fixed the problem on those 4 videos by changing the field order parameter to Upper Field First instead of Lower Field First when rendering them to MPEG2.
2. There are times in a few of the videos where I added a segment of video that I wanted instead of the footage in the original video. So to accomplish this, I inserted an empty video track at the top and then copied and pasted video segments into a couple of spots on that track. Since this video track is on top, it will override the primary video on the secondary video track when it gets to those spots in the track. Works fine except those short segments on video track one will stutter when played on my external DVD player after I burn the disc. I resolved the other stuttering (in problem #1 above) by changing the field order. But how can I change the field order on one video track and have a different field order on another track? I doubt it's possible, so what it going on here? And you want to know what really makes this strange? The video segments I copy and paste to video track one are taken from the primary video (from the second track). So it's not like I am importing some foreign video into the project. Yes, I tried dropping the segments down into the secondary track and deleting track one, but it still stutters in those spots when played in the DVD player after the rendered files are burned to DVD.
So there you go, a major mystery. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Doug