slide show jitters

Canton wrote on 11/27/2003, 5:15 PM
I'm new to the world of video editing, but have recently been working on a DVD capturing the events of my brothers wedding. I never used DVDA before, but the program is a breeze to operate. I have a simple layout, two slide shows set to music and a video of the wedding itself. Everything looke fine until I prepared the DVD and viewed it. The video looks great, but about half of the 150 pictures in the two slide show flicker badly. I've searched through the forums here and here's what I tried so far.

de-interlacing the pics and saving as .png files
re-sizing the pics to 720 pixels wide by whatever the aspect worked out to
creating the slide show in vegas video and rendering it before placing it into DVDA as a video clip.
changing from upper field first to lower field first.
checking the "re-duce interlace flicker" box
various bitrates while preparing upto 9.8

I'm very close to looking for another DVD rendering program, but I really like the way DVDA works and all the flexibility it gives you.

Can someone tell me how to get rid of this problem? I can't believe that there's not a solution for this issue. Any help that anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Comments

wobblyboy wrote on 11/27/2003, 5:37 PM
In don't understand, I have made several slide shows in Vegas and created DVD of the slide shows. The all play fine wlith no flicker. Are you sure you selected all the clips when you set the reduce interlace flicker switch? Perhaps you thought that if you set switch that is would apply to all stills. You have to select stills you want it applied to. This is the only solution I can think of. Hope it helps.
Canton wrote on 11/27/2003, 6:27 PM
Actually, I only took the worst slide and worked with that to try and reduce the flicker. So far, nothing I've done has seemed to have any effect on it whatsoever. This way, it was much quicker and easier to see if any of the things I'd tried would have had any effect on the final project. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Canton wrote on 12/1/2003, 8:41 AM
I've been working on this and have had some luck, sort of, rendering in different file formats out of vegas and putting it into DVDA as a media file. The problem I'm having now is that the pictures are blurry and have lost thier sharpness. Anyone have any suggestions on what settings to use to combat this? Thanks.
wobblyboy wrote on 12/1/2003, 6:25 PM
I have had real good luck with MPEG 2 render out of Vegas with interlace flicker on for all JPRG files. Jpeg files created with Minolta Demage 5 megapixel camera. Resulting DVD was very clear and almost no flicker.
pete_h wrote on 12/2/2003, 2:24 PM
How are you capturing the slides?
Canton wrote on 12/4/2003, 12:40 PM
Not sure what you mean - digital camera photos in .jpg format - any photo editing was done with PSP7. Is that what you meant?