Ghosting or Shake

NGC wrote on 5/27/2004, 3:11 PM

Using DVD Architect 1.0 to burn DVD creates a picture that has more shake than the original footage. The project only used 72% of blank DVD. I have tried Maximum bitrate and default bitrate and it makes no difference. Playing back the DVD with POWERDVD from the burner works great on the computer. But if you can't get a good picture playing back on two different tabletop DVD players what good is the burned DVD?

Any solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

kameronj wrote on 5/27/2004, 8:07 PM

Tell the people who are going to be watching the DVD that they have to sit in the chair and lightly shake their heads to and fro while they are watching the video to even out the shakes on the screen.

That should take care of the problem.

johnmeyer wrote on 5/27/2004, 8:49 PM

Shake? That is an odd artifact. Even a jitter would be unusual.

SonyEPM wrote on 5/28/2004, 7:43 AM

This could be a field order problem. What is your original source footage?

NGC wrote on 5/28/2004, 8:32 AM

The original footage is a compressed .mpg file. How do I fix a field order problem?

Thanks.

SonyEPM wrote on 5/28/2004, 9:50 AM

Did you render this file in Vegas? I'm guessing no...

As a test, load the file in Vegas, go to file properties and change the media properties>field order to the opposite of what it is now: lower to upper, or upper to lower.

Render with the DVDA MPEG-2 template, load into DVDA and burn to DVD. Any different? (You could render just a short portion of the movie for this test.)

NGC wrote on 5/28/2004, 11:35 AM

Good news and bad. I changed the field order to upper to lower which is opposite what I had. Encoded in Vegas and brought into Architect for burning the DVD. Results - Picture quality is terrible with extreme pixilation BUT the jerky ghost like that followed everyone is gone. One step forward two steps backwards.