How to reduce flicker with still images?

ricklb wrote on 9/30/2007, 9:28 AM
No matter what I do I am getting flicker on my television with certain high contrast images render through Movie Studio. Using still images only, .psd and .png, with Movie Studio 8.0b (build 122), placed in various resolutions to support zooming with Reduce Interlace Flicker checked in the media properties and Reduce Interlance Flicker active in DVD Architect Studio 4.5. I've spent many hours and lost many DVDs trying to eliminate this problem. Perhaps some combination of Field Order, Deinterlace Method and render file type?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 9/30/2007, 11:05 AM
You seem to have taken all the essential steps to make flicker go away. In my case, it takes away flickering, the only difference is that my pictures are jpg format. You may want to convert your pictures to jpg and see what the result is. If you don't pan and crop too often, you can reduce size to 800pixels max (unless you have a high definition tv). Use the batch conversion tool of Picasa or Irfanview, if you don't have another program to do this. They are free, and pretty good at it.
Radio Guy wrote on 9/30/2007, 12:47 PM
Also Vegas seems to favour pngs too. Did you try any Gaussian Blur. That does the trick for me and Median filter as well if the picture is hot. Makes a huge improvement on things like Telephone lines, fences, staircase jaggies, windows and siding and such while moving in or out.

Cheers
ricklb wrote on 9/30/2007, 6:04 PM
Yes, I have tried Gaussian Blur, no real help. I can not avoid panning, the Ken Burns effect is essential to my project. In Movie Studio I am creating my project and render are at 1440x1080. DVD Architect Studio is at 720x480, its maximum. I tried the project and render at 720x480, equal to DVD Architect, but the quallity suffered. Could that difference in resolution be the cause?
I'll try .jgp I just hate that format cause everytime you re-save you have image quality loss.
hbwerner wrote on 9/30/2007, 6:28 PM
I found using the "Reduce Interlace Flicker" switch after right clicking an event PLUS rendering at Best rather than Good reduced a lot of this problem. I've seen various people suggest Gaussian Blur, but even at the minum .001 if see a very sigificant reduction in the picture sharpness, so I opt for clarity and some flicker vs a blurred image.
ricklb wrote on 9/30/2007, 8:15 PM
Problem solved!
I discovered my rear projection tv was set to something called "movie" mode which blew out the highlights, making for a very bright picture. Once I set it to any other mode the flicker went away. It seems flicker is greatly exagerated by the screen brightness.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Radio Guy wrote on 9/30/2007, 10:25 PM
Simple fixes are always the best !