Jittery Videos

[StickyStephen]

I have a Winfast 2000xp deluxe card that I am using to capture video from VHS. I use Ulead Mediastudio 7 to edit and then Moviefactory2 to author edited video onto DVD. When I replay the DVD on a stand alone player and TV any motion involved (ie camera pan or objects moving past camera) appears messy. Can anyone help?

The rest of my system is:

Athlon xp1700
1GB PC2100 ram
80GB Seagate Barracuda
Voodoo 3 16MB
NEC 1300a DVD rewriter.

[Gazorgan]

Typically this is:

1) Wrong Field order on the encode (flip A/B and test)
2) Too low a bitrate (more common in SVCD)
3) Too High a bitrate (more common in SVCD)
4) Media (some media just isn't read very well by some players)
5) Very noisey source, which hogs bitrate. Try a clean source as a test (DVD).

For captures, try #1 first.

[ImaWeTodd]

appears messy

Messy?

I'll vote for #1.

[StickyStephen]

Thanks for your help guys.

Finally sorted it out by capturing in uncompressed AVI at 720 x 576 then converted it to MPEG and authored using DVD Moviefactory. I think my problems started when capturing direct to MPEG.

AVI is better for capturing but the files are HUGE!! Will have to buy a bigger HD.

[Richard_G]

If you're capturing from VHS, try dropping the frame size to half D1 (352 x 576). When you encode, keep that framesize and set the bitrate to around 3500kbs. That way the quality will be no worse than the original but you'll save hard drive space and be able to fit over 3 hours onto a DVDR disk.