Picture jitter problems resulting from making a DVD

[funkydude74]

Hi all. I've recently got a DVD burner and have for the first time made a DVD. Now I record at a resolution of 720x576 in fields using Ulead Video Studio 7 and I use DVD Movie Factory 2 SE to author the DVD and write the DVD. Now when I play the DVD on the computer it seems to play fine but when I play it on the TV it is all jittery as if each field/frame is vibrating when progressively changing and it's giving me the shits !!! I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm recording in fields as I'm doing TV show stuff, not movie stuff. Has anyone had the same trouble as me, and can anyone possibly tell me how to solve this inferno jittering problem please?

Also when capturing video straight to mpeg 720x576 I'm also getting that bloody jitter problem as well but it's intermittent. I don't know if it's frame droppage as Ulead Video Studio 7 for some reason doesn't have stats on frame droppage. But when I check the properties of the clip I look at the amount of frames and the total time of the clip and calculate the total time from the amount of frames and comparing it to the total time given it's almost excatly the same give or take a few milli/microseconds. I just wonder what's going on here?

If anyone could help me, you'd be doing me a huge favour as I really want to create successful DVDs of my 70s pop music programs I have such as Countdown, Top Of The Pops, Soul Train etc...

Cheers
Troy

[Gazorgan]

You have all the symptoms of wrong field order. Flip your A/B fields and try again.

[funkydude74]

Hi. Thanks for the tip. I reconverted the video files to field order B (Apparently Australian TVs use field order B for PAL D) and so I don't waste DVD discs I tried it with SVCD and when I tested it out it worked perfectly and I'm happy. Thanks mate, you're a legend !

Now all I need to do now is fix the recording jitter problem.

Cheers

[Specialist]

In general...

1. FIELD A works well for editing clips captured by an OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 card;

2. FIELD B works well for editing clips captured by analog capture devices.

In other words, the type of capture device you used should dictate the FIELD ORDER you choose in your Ulead VideoStudio project settings.

I have written a step-by-step tutorial for capture using OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 cards using Ulead VideoStudio:

http://www.jonesgroup.net/videostudiodvcaptureone.htm

I have also written a step-by-step tutorial for converting such DV .avi source clips to MPEG-2 for authoring to DVD discs:

http://www.jonesgroup.net/videostudiodvdstepone.htm

Hope this helps,

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net