Jitter, Flicker, Shimmer in some stills rendered to video

gjdonaldson wrote on 9/25/2004, 5:20 PM
Folks,

I have been putting slide shows together for about the last year and really like Movie Studio. I am having a heck of a time with my current project. I am taking a number of stills some shot with digital cameras, some scanned from photographs and some scanned with a slide scanner.

When rendered to video some of the pictures end up with areas on them that jitter, flicker or shimmer depending on what you want to call it. The problem shows up to some degree when previewing the rendered video on my PC and on the TV off a DVD.

I have tried a bunch of things:

1) Every thing I could find in this forum that remotely sounded like it might solve the problem.
a) Desaturating the picture using an FX
b) Unselecting the fast resizing button on the make movie screen.
c) Several other things

2) I have also adjusted the image using Jasc Paint Shop Pro.
a) I have applied various types of blur. These eventually solve the problem but by the time they have the image looks horrible.
b) Adjusted the whites
c) Reduced the RGB output
d) Delaced the image

I am using JPEG stills.

The problem exists with V3 and V4.

I am generating to avi which shows the problem in MS media player and then using Sonic MyDVD to get the video on DVD.

I am interest in any thoughts anyone has...

Thanks!

Greg Donaldson
Rockville, MD

Comments

gogiants wrote on 9/25/2004, 8:26 PM
Not sure if this would apply to JPEG stills, but I've had some luck recently by using a deinterlace filter in Virtual Dub. Virtual Dub is free, and I've had the best results with something called the "smart deinterlace" filter, which can be downloaded free at: http://neuron2.net/smart.html

To do this I've created short segments of uncompressed .avi files. Then I've deinterlaced them using VirtualDub. Big files, maybe not practical for a whole slide show, but possibly worth trying for some problem segments.

I am by far NOT an expert on deinterlacing, so I may not be the person to ask!