movie is jerky

[jedi155]

i just made a dvd and the quality is pretty good but the movie is jerky. I used power vcr II to capture it. it was a analog camcorder but I usted a VHS adapter and used my VCR.

[Innershield]

sounds like your field order is backwards.

[FulciLives]

i just made a dvd and the quality is pretty good but the movie is jerky. I used power vcr II to capture it. it was a analog camcorder but I usted a VHS adapter and used my VCR.

I'm not trying to be rude but ...

You haven't given us nearly enough detail here to help.

1.) What capture card did you use?
2.) What was the source format (NTSC or PAL)?
3.) What capture program did you use. What capture codec. What were your capture settings?
4.) What software did you use to process the capture and what steps did you take ... what settings did you use ... etc?
5.) When you converted to MPEG-2 DVD did you stay with the original source format (be it NTSC or PAL) or did you attempt a conversion from PAL to NTSC or vice versa.

Just some basic questions

If the video is jerky then something went wrong somewhere along the way. No one will be able to help you without a lot of detail as to what you used and how you used it.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[jedi155]

hi,
no you weren't being rude. I should have said more in the original post.
The capture card that I'm using is a ATI TV wonder ve. the source format is ntsc. I used MPEG 1 codec on the excellent setting and I used Power vcr 2 to capture it. The frames per second were at 25 to 29 frames. I stayed with the original frormat when i converted it to Mpeg 2.

[dcsos]

The frames per second were at 25 to 29 frames.

there's your problem
CAPTURE VIDEO at 29.97 frames per second if you're an NTSC user in the US
AUTHOR and PROCESS using this frame rate thruout the process...
You jerkiness is probably from interpolated frames that had to be inserted in the authoring step....

If you need to mix frame rates..capture to .avi instead and go into an edit (NLE edit ) before PROCESSING to MPEG-2

[Sulik]

MPEG1 is only progressive, so there are only 3 possibilities:

1- The encoder deinterlaced the video (or was a single-field capture), making motion less smooth.

2- You encoded as progressive without deinterlacing even though it was interlaced, probably causing a field order problem in TMPGENC. If the video appears to flicker, or go backwards in time in scenes with fast motion, then that's probably the case.

3- You dropped frames during the capture (You didn't mention if the MPEG1 file played correctly).

Did you try capturing straight to interlaced MPEG2 ?

[jedi155]

I guess practice makes perfect lol. I guess I should have captured strait to mpeg2. I try'll all the sugesstions that you guy's have said, thanks for all the help. The mpeg 1 played pretty good.