Help please: DV Cam+Premier+Nero = SVCDs that 'drag' on TV

[grimix]

As if i'm watching tape, and someone puts their finger on it momentarily every 20 seconds.

The masters are fine, the menus & features of the SVCD work great...

It just the movies have this cyclical "slow down" when watching them on a DVD player.

1.4 gig athlon, Plextor burner... all good hardware for this.

Any ideas?

[snowmoon]

I would start looking into two things.

Bitrate you encoded to. Did your bitrate peak too high for SVCD?

DVD player. Not all DVD players are 100% SVCD compatible no matter what the DVD player list says.

[kitty]

Also - did you have Premiere encode (or a plugin)? Or did you (gasp, I hope not) let Nero encode it? What were the encode specs?

[grimix]

Thanks for asking!

I capture my DVcam via Firewire and product master video files in Premier with these properties, and then use the SVCD wizard in Nero by dragging them into a "play list" and use the Nero SVCD MPEG2 plug in to create and burn the SVCD:



File Path: Y:\Hi Res Master Finals\090102\laborday.avi
File Size: 565.13MB bytes
Total Duration: 0;02;36;11
Average Data Rate: 3.61MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 480
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.900
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps

Audio: 48000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo

AVI File details:
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).

Video track 1:
Total duration is 0;02;36;11
Size is 536.38MB bytes (average frame = 123.44KB bytes)
There are 4687 keyframes.
Frame rate is 29.97 fps
Frame size is 720 x 480
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor: 'dvsd'

Audio track 1:
Size is 28.63MB bytes
Rate is 48000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bits


I tried another SVCD creater recommended here but had the same problem. I think my hardware is up to the task. Just can't find the right software / settings.

Appreciate recommendations.