Playback Problem

daguitargod wrote on 3/20/2006, 11:37 AM

I recently finished my movie project and used DVDA 3.0 to make a DVD with menus, etc. When I preview the movie and menus, everything looks good but when I actually burn the project on a DVD, parts of the video flicker when played on a DVD player. I used 2 different DVD players and still the same result. Any suggestions?

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ConvivialCreator wrote on 4/1/2006, 8:59 PM

Me too. Video Flicker. Very annoying.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/1/2006, 9:05 PM

There should be zero flicker.

PAL or NTSC?

Encoded in DVDA or elsewhere? If so, where?

What else can you tell us about your workflow?

daguitargod wrote on 4/3/2006, 5:09 PM

My original movie file is a WMV file created using Movie Studio + DVD. When I watch the video using Windows Media Player, everything comes out perfect. I then tried to burn it on DVD using DVDA 3.0a so that I can add a scene selection and a picture compilation. When I preview my work on DVDA, everything is perfect; however, when I play the burned disc on my DVD player, parts of the video flicker. It's always on the same parts of the video. I have some screen captures included in my movie which I read somewhere could be a problem. I deleted my screen captures and I'm still having the same problem. Here are some specifics on my rendering properties:

1. 4:3 ratio NTSC 720x480
2. File size is about 3.9GB (1hr 42min)

If someone could give me some kind of idea of what the problem could be, it would be much appreciated. I've wasted about 10 discs trying to pinpoint the problem. I don't see any information about this in any of the help pages.

Thanks again.

ScottW wrote on 4/3/2006, 5:29 PM

First of all, do NOT render as a WMV file and then use the file in DVDAS. WMV is usually highly compressed and could cause the problems you are seeing, especially since DVDAS will need to decompress the WMV file and then recompress as an MPEG-2. Render as DV AVI or as MPEG-2 (using one of the DVDA templates, not the default template).

Second, invest ina few RW disks for testing.

--Scott