moving parts of screen are blocky

[hondashadow]

Hi,

I am trying to export my movie from premiere elements to DVD.
Everything looks fine on tv, except for one thing: when there's movement, the moving object is very blocky, specially around the edges. For example, a walking person in an otherwise almost still background would look very blocky.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

[edDV]

First guess, bitrate.

How many hours are you trying to fit on a DVD?
What are your encoder presets?

Is this a DV camcorder source or something else?

[hondashadow]

The movie is 44 minutes long, and the original is from DVD. I demuxed to MPEG, and at that point, the quality is still fine.

In premiere elements, I use the export to DVD function.
I don't see any other settings there othar than:

bitrate 8 Mbps
PAL

The project settings show DV(NTSC) as compressor. (greyed out, no other settings available)

Took me some 12 hours to save to DVD....

[edDV]

The movie is 44 minutes long, and the original is from DVD. I demuxed to MPEG, and at that point, the quality is still fine.

In premiere elements, I use the export to DVD function.
I don't see any other settings there othar than:

bitrate 8 Mbps
PAL

The project settings show DV(NTSC) as compressor. (greyed out, no other settings available)

Took me some 12 hours to save to DVD....

I'm not familiar with Premiere Elements. It sounds like you have the encoder working in full speed CBR 8Mb/s but that might be VBR.

Assuming everything looks good in DV, an alternative would be to export to a DV-AVI file (or frameserve) and open in a different MPeg2 encoder.

TMPGEnc has a 30day trial
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

as does TMPGEnc DVD Author

[jimmalenko]

Sounds like the wrong field order to me.