Apologies to just to confirm this, but, you do mean Vertical? You don't mean horizontal? . .. G

OK, here are the stats:

Shot with Sony TRV33
Rendered as :Video for Windows" avi
Encoded with CCE at 8Mbps
I don't know what is meant by "everything set to lower field first..."
Yes, I mean vertical

But, again, it looks fine in preview mode of DVDA, just after making a DVD an viewing on the TV, so I thought interlaced related.

Any more thoughts?

Joe

It appears to me that I may need a more precise description, as interlace may not even be the issue.

When I watch the resultant dvd on TV it looks fine until the scene action is a pan. Then any verticla lines (like the edge of a building) "jitter" back and forth (vibrate left and right) as the pan happens, making you almost dizzy.

This vertical line "jitter" stops whenthe pan stops.

Any help is appreciated.

Joe

It does sound like you have a field-order problem, like your field-order got reversed.

If so, it would indeed look fine on a computer display, which displays both fields at the same time. But on television, the fields are displayed one after the other, at equal increments in time, and were imaged one after the other... if you get the field order "backward", it would play field 2, then field 1, then field 4, then field 3... resulting in the behavior you've described.

When motion stops, the field order is much less relevant (i.e., on a still shot).

So I'd say it's most likely a field interlace issue. When you go to make your MPEG-2, check whether you have "upper field first" or "lower field first" selected. Whichever you have, reverse it and try again, it should fix your problem.

Thanks You!

I was not aware of "field order" but since I have read the Vegas 5 manual at work and now understand. It indeed sounds like it could be the problem. The only thing I changed in the default template for "Vidoe for Windows" avi was the video quailty setting was from "good" to "best".

Could this be the problem? Or perhaps using CCE as my encoder (does it also have a settingfor field order?). Or is this just the random luch of the draw?

In any case, thanks for your help and I will try tonight when I get home.

Don't know anything about CCE, but I would suspect that it does have its own setting for field order.

You can verify where the error is coming in by playing back your rendered .AVI through the camera onto a television. If it still looks good, then the problem is not caused at that stage, and would be due to your CCE settings. If the rendered .AVI has the same motion problem, then obviously it was introduced based on the settings you used to render out your footage.

Barry, you are the man!

Indeed it was a field order problem. One interesting twist though. I capture from a Sony TRV33 inot Vegas. It says the media is "lower field first". I render to VFW avi as Lower Field First. I then Render in CCE, but the only way I get to jitter to stop is select Higer Field first in CCE (counter intuitive), the lower filed first selection induced the jitter.

Go Figure?

Anyway, its working, so thanks!

Joe