INTERLACE FLICKER

pivotpointfilms wrote on 1/8/2009, 4:46 AM
I NEED help/ My finished DVD- The stills flicker. In Vegas I went through and reduced interlace flicker on each still and rendered it to M-Peg 2. DVD Arc. has the option also BUT it adds almost double the GIGS to the file making it to big to burn onto 4.7 . Besides using a 8.5 g DVD- is there a way to stop the flickering in the render?

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 1/8/2009, 10:23 AM
Reducing interlace flicker (even in DVDA) should not increase the size of the video. Something is not kosher there.

What are the size of the stills. People seem to have flickering problems with stills when they are too high a resolution. Video is only 740x480 (unless it is HD). Reduce the size of your stills to that size or if you are going to do a lot of zooming to twice project size (1480x960). You can do this in an outside program such as photoshop but my favoite is a free program called Irfanview because you can do batch resizing which really saves time if you have a lot of them to do.
MSK wrote on 1/12/2009, 9:27 PM
Maybe this would help: http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4393
johnmeyer wrote on 1/12/2009, 10:58 PM
Interlace flicker should not make ANY difference in file size. You did something wrong there.

Best way to eliminate flicker is to render in Vegas:

Still photo flicker reduction

srode wrote on 1/13/2009, 3:43 AM
That's what I was going to suggest - render in Vegas - set up Vegas to bring stills to the time lined with cross fades and duration then use the pan crop tool on the slides you want and add music as you like - much easier than in DVDA
cliff_622 wrote on 1/19/2009, 11:53 AM
DVDA 5 has a horrible problem with interlaced encoding. (especially with .avi material.) It's so bad that it's just best to render what you need with vegas in the proper format so that DVDA 5 doesnt try to reincode it. That's the only solution I know.

Sony admitited the problem before the latest patch but never fixed it in the latest patch.

It's a shame.

Something seems to be happening lately in the Madison office and I dunno what it is. Whatever it is, it's really affecting the Vegas and DVDA product lines.