Flickering on DVD, not on SVCD

[Velcro Face]

I've authored my first DVD, and I'm disappointed. It flickers a bit, like a vibration, enough to make the video hard to watch. It looks much worse than the SVCD's I've made.

Working off a VHS original, I created a compressed .avi file (640 X 480) by means of iuVCR with the PICVideo Motion JPEG codec. I then edited the project using Ulead VideoStudio 6, saved it as a DVD .mpg file and authored it using Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.

The .avi files were deinterlaced during capture. Could this be related to the flickering? The DVD image also looks unusually jaggy around diagonal edges, whereas the SVCD image appears sharp.

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Michael

[Rookie64]

The .avi files were deinterlaced during capture. Could this be related to the flickering?

Yea, you don't want deinterlaced captures...only if you're doing still images for printouts.

Anything you're capturing to view on TV should be interlaced.

check out Lordsmurf's guides - all this is explained in detail there
http://www.lordsmurf.com

Also compare your settings

[Velcro Face]

Turns out the problem was a simple one: The PICVideo codec was not
installed on my system. I recently replaced my hard drive after a crash,
and I had not yet installed the codec. (I figured an .avi file was an .avi
file, but I was wrong.) Once I installed the PICVideo codec, the video
rendered perfectly to DVD with nary a flicker. It looks beautiful.

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Michael