jittery video help

[aosavage]

Admittedly, I am new to this stuff, but think I have a pretty good handle. however, here is my problem. . . . .

I captured several clips from a VHS ( making a football highlight video). I used Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture the video, and edit/create my video.

I rendered the video to MPEG2 format, at a bitrate of 4000 and 8000. When I burn to a DVD ( using Roxio Easy CD-DVD creator 6), the video is very jumpy. It does not jump up and down, just like I am missing every other frame. Almost a "strobe" effect.

Have a P IV system, using WinXP. Have 768 MB of RAM, and two 80 GB hard drives.

I am at a loss as what else to try to clear this up. Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[aosavage]

It has been a week, and no replies!

Is this because I didn't provide enough information, or because no one has a suggestion?

[j_b]

Admittedly, I am new to this stuff, but think I have a pretty good handle. however, here is my problem. . . . .

I captured several clips from a VHS ( making a football highlight video). I used Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture the video, and edit/create my video.

I rendered the video to MPEG2 format, at a bitrate of 4000 and 8000. When I burn to a DVD ( using Roxio Easy CD-DVD creator 6), the video is very jumpy. It does not jump up and down, just like I am missing every other frame. Almost a "strobe" effect.

Have a P IV system, using WinXP. Have 768 MB of RAM, and two 80 GB hard drives.

I am at a loss as what else to try to clear this up. Any suggestion

Thanks in advance for your time.

Try defraging your system. That helped my similar problem

[Perro Grande]

Try having Pinnacle make the DVD directory structure, but don't actually burn the disk.

This should create a folder named DVD. Inside that will be one more more .VOB files. Try playing these VOB files with a software DVD Player (WinDVD, eg) and see if they have the same problem.

If they do not, it sounds like you might have either a burner problem, or Pinnacle is having a problem burning to your DVD drive.

Also -- check to make sure Windows is using DMA to access the DVD Burner, and not PIO mode. Right click on My Computer, select properties. Click on the hardware tab, click on Device Manager, Click on IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Double click on PRIMARY CONTROLLER. Click on the advanced tab. Make sure both device 0 and device 1 show DMA IF AVAILABLE in the dropdown list. If they say PIO MODE, change it to DMA.

Repeat this process for the SECONDARY CONTROLLER. Reboot if necessary.