A few years ago I made a video using Ulead VideoStudio 4.0. The video files were AVI files. This video project was never advanced any farther than this, as this was before DVD technology became accessible (to me, anyway).

Now I have Ulead VideoStudio 8.0 and a DVD burner, and I decided to complete my old video project by encoding it to MPG2 and burning it to DVD.

However, I never liked the titles in VS 4.0, as they had no shadow feature. The titles just didn't show up very well. Since VS 8.0 has shadows, I decided to update the old AVI files - before I encoded and burned them - by adding shadowed titles on top of the old titles. It was tedious work, but I got it done.

I then rendered a new AVI file from the old AVI files and the new titles using VS 8.0. The newly rendered AVI video file looks exactly like the old video files, except that there is a slight flickering whenever the titles appear. The titles themselves don't flicker, but everything else on the screen does. It's too bad because the titles look much better with the shadows.

Can anyone offer any insight or advice on this flickering?

As some additional information, the original footage was recorded in analog 8mm videotape. The 8mm tape was then digitized with a Digital8 camcorder and fed into the computer with a firewire as AVI files.

Thanks for any help.