choppy quality w/ Premiere or Encore? Any idea?

[mrzone]

hi all.. I am doing a small project, taking my wedding's DVD - and I'm trying to shorten it. I have successfully rip it, convert it to AVI, edit it in PREMIERE, export it to M2V & WAV (in PREMIERE 6.5), then use ENCORE to create the menu, then using ENCORE to create the VOB, and use NERO to burn the DVD. Everything work!

BUT - when I view the DVD in any regular DVD player.. the quality is fine.. but in any fast action screen (ie: the camera pan from left to right) the video quality is very "choppy" - well.. that's not even the best description but I couldn't explain it. The video and audio stay in sync, the video doesn't looks like it is stopping/pausing.. just very "unsmooth"...

BUT - if I try ti view the DVD in my computer using say "Power DVD" - it doesn't have that problem.

Any idea? Am I doing something wrong? Should I build it to AVI instead of M2V/WAV in PREMIERE? And then let ENCORE read the AVI file and create the VOB that way?

[rallynavvie]

I build to DV AVI in Premiere and use TMPGEnc for the MPEG encoding. I've always had great results with TMPGEnc so when I did finally pick up Premiere I just couldn't stop using it. I also don't like the encoder that Encore uses so it's best to create your MPEG2 elementary streams before importing them. Motion menus and such you can probably let Encore or Premiere encode.

Problem sounds like bitrate starvation during fast sequences. Adobe does have a 2-pass VBR option, did you use that when encoding? I would think it would still show up on a software player though. I'd also suspect the DVD player of not being able to handle the burned disc at those points.

[DVO]

It might have to do with that you reencode the files. Maybe you should consider using TMPEGEnc DVD Author (free trial). There you can open your DVD (if you have copy-protection you need to RIP it first). Then you can cut the movie and get menues using the templates (not very many). I think this would keep the quality better since you would only cut the movie not reencode.

[kadi500]

No, I think the problem lies elsewhere.

I think your original movie is interlaced and you have an improper field order on your final MPEG - that's why on a regular software DVD player everything is OK. But when viewing on stand-alone player and on 50Hz TV - it stutters like hell I've had the same problem, because all my films are interlaced.

Use Restream to fix the field order, burn those files again and write what happened.