Seeing as how so many have given me help with this problem I think it only fair to share how I've finally got this to work and work well without an aweful lot of work.
Laid out all the images to supplied EDL, duplicated to track below and applied track crop and medium GB to lower track, this is just to get the frame filled with no black borders as many of the images are far from 16:9 (try 2:9!).
Inserted empty track between. Project at this point is just native DV (16:9 PAL in my case).
Now monitoring on external monitor check for line jitter, if none then drag corresponding still down to track 2. Work way through all images, this is pretty quick and easy.
Save project. Apply Gaussion Blur 0.000 horizontal, 0.001 Vertical to top track (track 1), track 2 don't touch. Change project to 1080, 25fps, LFF and render to mpeg-2 PAL widescreen at BEST.
Resulting encoded file shows zero line jitter, no noticeable loss of resolution either. The point of having the extra track is so that those images that were already cropped and at lower res wouldn't be unnecesarrily affected nor any image that didn't have problematic areas.
This method gives a pretty quick workflow, doesn't need anything special and yields stunning results. If anyone wants to see just how good an image 720x576, even with stretched pixels can yield, I highly recommend getting some stills from a good hires still camera into Vegas and making a DVD.
Again thanks to all those who provided input (and patience).
Oh and by the way, DVD should be in ABC shops around Australia in a few weeks, it's a freebie with an audio CD titled "A Walk In The Park" and no, I'm strictly work for hire on this one and my only creative input is the rather plain menu!
Bob.
Laid out all the images to supplied EDL, duplicated to track below and applied track crop and medium GB to lower track, this is just to get the frame filled with no black borders as many of the images are far from 16:9 (try 2:9!).
Inserted empty track between. Project at this point is just native DV (16:9 PAL in my case).
Now monitoring on external monitor check for line jitter, if none then drag corresponding still down to track 2. Work way through all images, this is pretty quick and easy.
Save project. Apply Gaussion Blur 0.000 horizontal, 0.001 Vertical to top track (track 1), track 2 don't touch. Change project to 1080, 25fps, LFF and render to mpeg-2 PAL widescreen at BEST.
Resulting encoded file shows zero line jitter, no noticeable loss of resolution either. The point of having the extra track is so that those images that were already cropped and at lower res wouldn't be unnecesarrily affected nor any image that didn't have problematic areas.
This method gives a pretty quick workflow, doesn't need anything special and yields stunning results. If anyone wants to see just how good an image 720x576, even with stretched pixels can yield, I highly recommend getting some stills from a good hires still camera into Vegas and making a DVD.
Again thanks to all those who provided input (and patience).
Oh and by the way, DVD should be in ABC shops around Australia in a few weeks, it's a freebie with an audio CD titled "A Walk In The Park" and no, I'm strictly work for hire on this one and my only creative input is the rather plain menu!
Bob.