Charles,
I appreciate your answer. The Broadcast Color Filter did stop the
jitter, as long as I preview at a size LESS than the project size of
720x480. If I preview at 720x480 (project size) and "Best" or print
to tape (DV), the jitter returns. It seems like some kind of problem
with the interlacing of fields when the project is set to 720x480.
What kind of DV card do you have? I'll gladly buy a new one to get
around this problem.

Just to review, I set velocity envelope to 0 on an event in time line
to freeze the first frame of the event. It freezes only if there was
no action around the time of the shot; it also freezes if I use
broadcast colors and set preview to less than 720x480.
Barb

Charles de Montebello wrote:
>>Hi Barbara - I don't think I'm going to be much help but I did
>>experience the same thing as you with jitter using the velocity
>>envelope. I was trying to slow down a high motion "drive-by" and it
>>looked good on the computer but jittery on the TV and DV tape. One
>>thing I did notice was when you are paused on a frame and output to
>>external monitor, you can get a stable picture if you add the
>>Broadcast color filter to the track. I don't know why and I never
>>tried rendering with this turned on but it's worth a shot.
>>
>>sorry I can't be of more help!
>>
>>barbara dulick wrote:
>>>>I beg for anyone's help or response as to whether you can
>>>>duplicate this problem.
>>>>
>>>>I set an event's velocity envelope to 0 to get a freeze
>>>>frame about 4 seconds long. On external monitor, (also on
>>>>DV tape after printing to tape) I get a lot of jitter. If I
>>>>turn on "RESAMPLE" in the event properties, jitter stops.
>>>>However, if I render, even if I turn on "RESAMPLE THE FRAME
>>>>RATE of ALL VIDEO" in custom settings, the jitter returns
>>>>when I play the rendered avi file to an external monitor.
>>>>
>>>>The VV manual says on page 282:
>>>> "The Resample option in the media properties dialog and on
>>>>the Project tab in the Custom Settings dialog during the
>>>>final render both perform the same function."
>>>>I presume the manual must mean the EVENT properties
>>>>dialogue and not the media properties dialogue, because
>>>>there is no RESAMPLE in the Media properties.
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, does anyone have the same problem, or know
>>>>why "resample" eliminates jitter as an event property, but
>>>>not as a custom rendor setting. BTW, the freeze frame works
>>>>okay if the original scene didn't have any quick motion in
>>>>it.
>>>>
>>>>I have Pyro Firewire, Pentium III-700, 300+MB memory, Abit
>>>>BE6-2 mobo, SB Live soundcard, Adaptec 3950 U2 SCSI,
>>>>Cheetah drives, IDE ultra-66 system drive, VideoBlaster TNT
>>>>PCI video card.
>>>>Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.