DVD Menu flicking to Black & White every few seconds

Jaffa wrote on 7/20/2003, 4:02 AM
Hi

I've recently made a 5 minute video in vegas 4 with about 8 seperate video tracks. I'm using this video as the background to a dvd menu in dvd architect. When I play the dvd with composite scart I get a flickering to black & white when tracks 1 & 5 come on. I've investigated this a little and found that tracks 1 & 5 in vegas are slowed down (both have forced resample set and track 5 has reduce interlace flicker set) Track 1 only flickers twice, but track 5 flickers for about 30 seconds.
If I play the DVD through s-video, then it plays fine.
Some of the settings on the project are:
Field Order : Lower field first
Pixel Aspect ratio : 1.0926 (PAL DV)
Deinterlace method : blend fields
I'm fairly new to this, so I'm guessing these settings might have a baring on the problem.
Can anyone explain why I'm getting this flicker or come up with a solution to it.
Thanks a lot

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 7/20/2003, 5:39 AM
I don't know much about Scart except having to buy an adaptor when I was in England, but if it plays ok thru s-video, I would suspect hardware, in particular corrosion on one of those litle contacts that Scart uses.

Is there a way of cleaning these to check - maybe a short dip in acid or a solvent?