Urgently need help, DVD jitters!!

LosingmyMind wrote on 6/1/2005, 10:39 AM
Well, if someone could help me out with this problem I would be most thankful for I am ready to pull out my hair---I am trying to finish DVDs I had promised to a group of people, but alas, problems...

After rendering my video on Vegas Movie Editor, the newest build, I burned it to DVD using DVD architect. When I play it back on the DVD player several pieces of the video are jittery! Not the audio, just the video. So I went back to the vegas file, and cut some parts out,(not the parts that jittered) and re-rendered it, and burned it to DVD again,,, That solved one problem... the parts that used to jitter didnt anymore...but new parts did!!!!!!
I was using staples generic DVDs to test because I didn't want to use the nice sony ones I had bought for the finished product... so I read on this forum somewhere to try not generic DVDs, so I tried fujifilm. Same problem. Then I tried it on one of the Sonys and it still isnt working. I tried rendering the movie on Vegas with it set on NTSC stream for DVD Architect, as was suggested somewhere, but all that resulted in when burnt to DVD, was no sound, AND the jitters.
So, I am positivly at my wits end, because I have to finish these quickly, and I don't even know whats casuing the problem to try to fix it... and browsing these forums doesnt help much because I don't know all the technical terms, I'm kind of new at this.....help please!!

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/1/2005, 1:40 PM
Jittery DVDs are common when you use MPEGs or non-DV-AVIs for your source files, Losing.

What files did you build your project out of?
LosingmyMind wrote on 6/1/2005, 3:35 PM
Build out of? Um.. I'll take a guess at what that means...when I capture the videos from my video camera using dazzle, they end up as mpgs, and then they are mpgs after I render them on vegas ... should I try them as something else....?

Thanks!
ScottW wrote on 6/1/2005, 7:03 PM
Ditch your Dazzle.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/2/2005, 7:40 AM
Find a product that can save your video files as DV-AVIs and all will be well.

If you've got a miniDV or Digital8 camcorder, you can capture via firewire cable and you'll get DV-AVIs. Otherwise, a number of products out there can capture analog and other camcorder output as DV-AVI, the most affordable being the ADS Pyro AV Link (about $150).
ADinelt wrote on 6/2/2005, 8:03 AM
If the Dazzle captures analog video, then make sure you set the properties on the clip in the media pool to Upper Field First. Analog is Upper Field First and Digitial is Lower Field First. This may help you with your problem.

Al
LosingmyMind wrote on 6/3/2005, 1:57 PM
Yes, it is analog..my camera isnt digital, sadly. Well, I checked the clips, and they are on upper field... and the funny thing is, every time I re-rendered, the jitters moved farther and farther down the line... I know for sure its not the dvd program now.. Burned a dvd with a diff program and it was still jittery in the same spots... so if the Mpg is casuing this, is there anyway I can save this project?

Thanks!
Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/7/2005, 12:23 PM
Here is a Knowledge Base answer that might help:
http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=701&p_created=1021611600&p_sid=xNB2QoHh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzkmcF9wcm9kcz0xNywwJnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9MS4xNzsyLnUwJnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1tcGVn&p_li=&p_topview=1
Ideally you should convert you MPEGs to DV-AVIs before you begin editing. There are some suggestions in the Knowledge Base article, but you might also have some luck with VirtualDub (free at www.virtualdub.org). You just open your MPEGs in it and then Save As to create AVIs.

Unfortunately, that means, if you've done a lot of editing with your MPEGs, you'll need to redo it all again with your new AVIs -- but at least your flutter problems will disappear!
LosingmyMind wrote on 6/10/2005, 7:04 AM
Thanks for the help!!!!! I greatly appreciate it... now I know how to start off new projects to be jitter free, for which I am thankful. Thank you!!