Premiere 6.5 to vcd quality problem

[morr1s]

I made a video in Adobe Premiere 6.5. Every time I convert to a VCD using any tool, (TMPG or the mpeg convertor in Premiere) I get below average results. The video is all still photos and I get a lot of flicker. TMPG seems to be the worst, I get pixels in the background that seem to fade in and out. I have noticed it gets worse when I reduce the frame size to 352 x 240 to make it vcd compliant. Is there anything I can do to improve the quality. I am burning in Nero and anything I change seems to make it non compliant (bit rate etc.) Also what is the best codec in premiere to compress with even for an avi? Thanks for any help.

[Poplar]

There are lot of tools to do picture slide show, Premiere is one of them. If you are not satisfied with quality you are getting, just increase bitrates and resolution. Pay no attention to Nero's warnings and burn it. It will play all right. If you want lossless compression from Premiere, use HuffYUV. All other codecs are lossy.

[RajunCajun]

I had a very similar problem. I ended up choosing "no compression" for a codec and everything worked fine. Also, I scanned all my pics at 720x480 and maintained aspect ratio. I chose the 720x480 Video for windows with no compresssion and the pics come out nicely. Hope this helps.