flickering in some photos in slideshow

slambubba wrote on 11/19/2003, 10:40 AM
i'm making a simple slideshow for a guy at work. it is just stills of his vacation, with no pan/crop. the photos are all JPGs taken with a 5MP camera. when i view the final DVD on a TV, some of the photos have areas that flicker. it was late last night, but i seem to remember it was usually lighter color areas.

i have a few things i can try, but thought i would ask the experts first. my ideas were:

1. converting the JPGs to PNG. i thought i read somewhere that vegas handles PNG better than JPG. any quick ways of doing this? i could write a photoshop action i guess.

2. renderering at BEST instead of GOOD.

any of these sound like a solution, or is there something better?

thanks.

Comments

RichMacDonald wrote on 11/19/2003, 10:53 AM
>i read somewhere that vegas handles PNG better than JPG. any quick ways of doing this?

I doubt this will fix your problem but do a search for IrfanView. Its a great, free, graphics app that does batch work easily. Although if you have photoshop...

>renderering at BEST instead of GOOD.

Yes, definitely should help. May not be sufficient.

Do a search in this forum for "still" and "jitter". That should give you a good idea of the issues and tradeoffs.
Julius_911 wrote on 11/19/2003, 10:55 AM
I had the same problem a while back ago.

Right mouse click on the image on the timeline and check off
Reduce interlace flicker.

Also make sure you apply Broadcast Colors.

I think that was it...if not, do a search on this forum under my username.

Hoep it helps!
johnmeyer wrote on 11/19/2003, 1:33 PM
Reduce interlace flicker and render Best.
slambubba wrote on 11/19/2003, 4:00 PM
can i reduce interlace flicker on an entire track or do i need to do 1 event at a time? with well over 100 images, that could take some time.
aussiemick wrote on 11/19/2003, 4:07 PM
Right click on first event, select events to the end then click reduce interlace flicker.
johnmeyer wrote on 11/19/2003, 4:30 PM
Also, remember that if you change any fX or other event property, you can then select that event, select Copy, select the remaining events you want to change, and then select Paste Event Attribute.