DVD Jitters!

[hagie]

Please help. I've edited home video in Adobe Premiere Pro and converted to a 12 gig movie file. I use DVD Santa to convert to VOB files then burn. Problem is Santa compresses to 2.88 gigs not 4 gigs. The final DVD when played on a TV is very jerky with motion. I assume it is a compression problem. Is there a way to improve quality to eliminate the jerkyness?
Thank you.

[bugster]

First, use a dedicated standlone mpeg encoder (such as tmpGenc, Procooder, CCE etc) to convert your files to DVD compliant mpeg. The advantage of a dedicated encoder is that it gives you full controll of all the settings, but it may take some reading and learning to get the best out of it.

Then use a dedicated DVD authoring program to convert the mpeg into VOB files etc.

BTW 12Gb of DV avi is less than an hour, so at DVD's max bitrate, 3 Gigs is not that far off what you would expect. The jerkyness is probably down to something else such as wrong field order.