Premiere pro an Mainconcept plugin

[Gizmosays]

Hello, I am fairly new to the digital editing world, I am using Premiere pro and Manconcept plugin v 1.4. The purpose of plugin is to be able to capture and edit in mpeg through premiere. My system is p4- 1.8 Ram- 768 using firewire, and a DV camcorder.
I have had great Dvd quality transferring avi- for editing to premiere then encode to Dvd nstc 720-480 using the preset settings (just takes 7hrs to encode but again good quality. Since I read the digitalfaq.com article about avi vs mpeg they make it sound like there is no need to caputure in avi if the final product will be Dvd quality. So I have been wanting to capture from my camcorder at Dvd nstc mpeg settings using the main concept plugin to save space and encoding time.
My problem is that I am experiencing jerky video, when moving from left to right. I have tried changing the field settings from lower to upper, the only difference that I notice was that it tranferred the jerkyness to the top of the screen or bottom depending on the setting. I am using average 6800 bit rate to 8000 max, and have change my ftp to 30, tested with VBR and CBR but still not luck. Is there anything else you guys can recommend. ( I have done my reading and tried different methods but still not luck)

[BJ_M]

if you are capturing from Dv , it must be set to 29.97DF and lower field first ...

[Gizmosays]

I have tried the presets that main concept offers, with encode at 29.97, but again I get the same results. Like I mention I get the jerky video only when I caputure in Mpeg with Dvd presets. I am starting to think it is my computer and hardware, but I don't drop any frames when caputuring.
Gizmo

[sitlet]

yeah, encoding directly to mpg is not a very good idea. it takes a lot of power to do that, and even though you may have a pretty new system, it may not be able to do it. i would suggest capturing directly to dv avi, editing, then when you are all done, convert to mpg. editing in mpg is a little more tricky than editing with avi. you will start to run into problems by editing mpg's.

[Gizmosays]

Ok well I tried different other test but not luck. The jerkyness still appears at the bottom of the screen, or top if I change the field order. Anyways my problem was that it took roughly 6 to 8 hrs to encode a 1.33 hr video, well what I did is edited in avi exported using the main concept plugin, the new one, not the one that comes with adobe, and it only took 3hrs to encode, quality after burn to dvd is outstanding, and I can live with 3 hrs of encode.
So in my conclusion my computer dose not have the capability to capture in mpeg without video conflicts it is probably to demanding for my pc spec's. Avi to pc is not a capture but a transfer so quality is never affected and encode is not a problem internally.
Gizmo