jumpy stills

[Deckedout]

I'm working on a very large slideshow with nearly 600 still images. I'm using ArcSoft ShowBiz to produce the slideshow and Ulead Movie Factory 2 to create menus and burn to DVD. When I preview the video it looks fine, but once burned to DVD about 25 of the pictures have jumping pixels. There must be something I've done differently with those pictures, because it only happens to some of the pictures shown in landscape format....they are all group shots, but it doesn't happen to every group shot. The resolution and dimensions can be exactly the same on two different pictures, but one jumps and the other doesn't. I do have the anti-flicker box checked in MF2, but it hasn't helped. Has anyone had this experience or do you know what I've done wrong? Please HELP! Thank you!

[Specialist]

Your problem description suggests to me that some of your images may have not been properly deinterlaced.

I would suggest using an image editor to deinterlace the images that exhibit the problem.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Deckedout]

How do I go about that in say Photoshop? Thank you!

[Specialist]

I don't have Photoshop, but I'm sure you can just plug in the word "deinterlace" and find the command.

I have Corel Photo-Paint 11 and it's IMAGE>TRANSFORM>DEINTERLACE.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Deckedout]

Well, I found de-interlace in Photoshop. There are choices of either odd or even fields to eliminate and then choices to either interpolate or use duplication. Whichever I choose, makes the picture look worse. It looks okay on close-ups, but the group shots are really messed up when I do that. I don't know if it will look better from a burned DVD. Do you think that will help? I hate to spend the hours on rendering and burning it if there is no chance that it will improve. Your help is appreciated! Thanks again!

[Specialist]

If the DEINTERLACING doesn't work, then obviously that's not the problem.

So forget that idea.

Can you identify *anything* that distinguishes the photos that display well from those that don't?

Something must explain the difference... right?

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net