Ulead Video Studio Question??

[mike1868]

I am rather new to doing all of this video stuff and have done a lot of reading on this site.
I am using Ulead Video Studio 6.0 to create a svcd, but I am not starting out using captured video at all. I am trying to make a short movie with pictures that were taken on my honeymoon.
I did get all of this to work, it looks really good except one thing. During playback on my standalone DVD player, there is a slight flicker of the image. Some flicker more then others and some dont do it at all. So my question is this......is there a way to get rid of the flicker or am I just going to have to live with it because i am just using pictures?
I have tryed using Ulead Pictureshow, but I dont really like it, I can do everything that I want with V.S.
If anybody can help me that would be great.

Thanks in advance.
Mike

[mike1868]

Come on people!! Enough of you have looked at this, please try and give me a solution and some kind of idea.

Thanks

[HackaShaq]

I would suggest using Ulead's DVD pictureshow. There's a demo.
It allows the full 720x480 still resolution as defined in the VCD2.0 standard. No flickering since the picture is encoded once, not as multiple frames.

[EricB]

Mike,

On programs like Premiere, they have a setting for stills that helps remove flicker. So one choice would be to download the trial of Premiere and try that.

Another approach would be to look at the settings for the pictures that don't flicker and apply those same settings to the ones that do. I'm thinking in terms of resolution, encoding (BMP, JPG), aspect ratio. I think some of these programs aren't real sophisticated in their resizing.

Video Studio also allows you to place stills in the title track. There you can change the zoom ratio which may also get rid of the jitters.

[william_n]

Mike, when you first open Ulead video editor, use the DV NTSC (or PAL) project template and when done save the video file as MS - AVI format. Then convert to MPEG1 or 2 using TMPGEnc, this should come out without any flickering, good luck !