Shaky video

[Cipher5000]

hi,

My videos in DV AVI format look just fine, but when i convert to MPEG2 DVD they become very shakey and look as if I was shaking my camera all over the place. Very jerky. Also the shaking seems to make the vid lose quality and get blurry.
I know its got something to do with the frames, I have tryed top and botom field order, it deosn't seem to matter. I've tryed a few different programs to convert as well Ulead DVD Movie Factory, TMPGEnc and I downloaded a few other programs as well, i get the same effect every time.

I am using a pinhole lense which I believe is causing this to happen becuase it never used to do this, but the DVs look fine so I'm hoping there is a way to fix this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[zoobie]

If the DV looks fine, it's not your pinhole lens. Offhand, it sounds like you need more bitrate.

[guns1inger]

it sounds like field order, but some screen shots would help

[edDV]

Did you try encoding the transferred DV with Ulead DVD Movie Factory and creating the DVD there?

Your problem is in your procedure.

[Cipher5000]

If the DV looks fine, it's not your pinhole lens. Offhand, it sounds like you need more bitrate.

Trust me its the lense. I'm not an expert at this stuff but i know when I used to use the cam by itself I never had this problem.
For one thing pinhole lenses inverts the screen, so the cam needs to be upside down. I also need to turn "Steady Shot" off on my Sony cam because it seems to reverse that setting as well.
All i can say is the Dv will look ok, then when I make MPEG2s itlooks like the cam is shaking alot more, like it was 2 different videos all together

Did you try encoding the transferred DV with Ulead DVD Movie Factory and creating the DVD there?

Your problem is in your procedure.

I used to do it that way, then started editing my DVs in VD because it was easier. I leave the DV interlaced. Then I have tryed using different programs (I usaully use Ulead) as I mentioned and used top and bottom field order, and it always comes out the same.
When the movies are interlaced they look ok, but once I encode them to MPEG2 thats when the shake happens
I've also captured using WinDv as well, same story.

[edDV]

If it looks OK after transfer and before encoding then it would seem to point to your encoder settings. If you could post a representative frame capture we would recognize the issue. "Shakey" and "two pictures" usually points to field order as said.

[Cipher5000]

EdDv I sent you a PM