Stuttering horizontal movement.

[eksteinberg]

Hello!
I'm new on this forum, and I have a problem which I have not been able to get answered anywhere else. Here's my situation: I produced a 50 minute long movie in Adobe Premiere, encoded it to mpg, and burned a DVD. The movie plays just fine from the Premiere timeline, but the dvd has 1 problem: I have still-pictures which move horizontally (from side to side), and their motion is stuttered and jerky. Everything else looks ok; zooms, live video, credit rolls (vertical motion). It's just the still-pics that move left-right-left that are bad, and only on the DVD. I have played the DVD on both set-top DVD players, and on software players.. same result. I have used 2 different encoders: Adobe mpeg encoder and Matrox encoder...same result. I have tried all 3 varieties of interlacing...same result. Does anyone know what I need to do to get clean, smooth motion on horizontal movement on my DVDs??
Eric

[SLK001]

What are the "three varieties of interlacing"?

[eksteinberg]

Sorry for being unclear. The 3 are: Upper field priority, lower field priority, and no fields (frames, or deinterlaced). My hardware is Upper field priority, so that's what I'm guessing it should be, but I'm desperate, so I'll try anything!! Since my post I have been experimenting even more, and it just doesn't seem to work. How do you guys who have been doing this for a while make horizontally moving images/graphics move smoothly on your finished DVDs??!! I have been struggling with this for a long time now, and there must be a setting or something I'm doing wrong. But what??!!

Eric

[q1aqza]

I've never tried moving stills in Premiere but for general stills I check the Optimise stills option - not sure exactly what it does but it certainly makes my stills come out clear and crisp when encoded to MPEG2 using AME (I think it is something to do with not trying to 'pad' the still to the full 25FPS (PAL) - or something along those lines!). Without having Premiere in front of me at the moment (I'm at work) I can't easily describe where that option is.

I suggest also posting this on the Premiere forum on the Adobe website.