Solving Interlace Flicker

[tygrus2000]

This is a problem I have been struggling with for a few months now and I am at my wits end.

All I am doing is taking some digital stills, putting them on the timeline in VV4, adding cropping and panning effects then rendering to MPEG2 for DVD. In the end result, many of the photos have flickering artifacts in them, particularly pictures with horizontal lines. Others dont do it at all. VV4 has a switch called Reduce Interlace Flicker and I have this checked everytime I render

Now I have tried rendering as:
1.) Interlaced, Top Field 1st
2.) Interlaced, Bottom Field 1st
3.) Non-Interlaced, Progressive Scan

None of these eliminates this problem. I have even tried some smoothing, deinterlace and field bob filters in VDub on it as well and no luck either. Its kind of annoying when you are putting together a nice project and have an annoying little problem like this.

Any help or experiences are greatly appreciated.

Tygrus

[tygrus2000]

Bump

[gfj]

I had more or less the same problem with DVD menu's on my new DVD player. I tried everything and nothing helped.

Then I plugged in the S-Video cable instead of the normal Composit Video. Suddenly all the flickering was gone.

May be this is also you problem. If your DVD plays well in a software player on your computer or on a different standalone player, this might be your problem too.

[SLK001]

This sounds like you have a problem in the encoding of the stills. Is the resolution 720 x 480? If you are having your program "expand" them to the screen, this is where you could get this flicker.

All TV ('cept some HDTV) is displayed as interlaced. But since your "scene" is static, you shouldn't even see this flicker.

[tygrus2000]

All stills are larger than 720x480 when I start, so there is no resizing going on. The stills technically arent static since I am panning across them with zoom/crop effects. Thats what causes the interlacing artifacts. I read on another forum to try Deinterlacing/Interpolate Fields as a sol'n. Trying it now.