Glitches at scene changes on output DVD

[sev]

I'm using Ulead Video Studio 8 and have captured DV footage to avi files and edited them with Video Studio into a finished video. It looks fine on the PC (of course!). However, when I use Video Studio to create a DVD most of the video looks fine on playback to a TV from a DVD player, but occasionally there is a "glitch" (screen flash) where one clip ends and another clip starts (there is no transition effect at these points just a "jump cut").

When I play back the DVD frame-by frame I can see why there is a problem. At these points the frame appears to consist of one field from the first clip and one field from the second clip!

Can anyone point me to a fix for this?

Technical details:

Captured to avi files in PAL-DV format, type 2, lower field first (yes I know now that I should have captured in the same format as I was going to output, but I'm on a learning curve!), 16-bit PCM stereo sound at 48KHz from Panasonic NV-DS38 DV camcorder.

PAL-DVD output, lower field first, variable data rate (Max 8000kbps), LPCM Audio, 48KHz stereo.

Additional music track used 44.1 KHz 16 bit PCM stereo WAV files.

Thanks in anticipation,

Sev.

PS. Hope this is the right forum...

[poerschr]

I think your problem is with Video Studio...There is a problem in how it cuts and joins scenes...unfortuantly, I have never used Video Studio....I recommand using avisynth...you get the program like virtualdub and find the points that you want to edit out, then you type that into the text file, and import the file into TMPGenc, and use TMPGenc DVD author to burn....

check out avisynth.org

avi file >> virtualbub (to find frame points)

avi file >> avisynth (frame points go here)>> TMPGenc (to mpeg 2) >> TMGenc DVD author (create menu + burn)

[poerschr]

yea, I am telling you this becasue these programs are the best...you can start off with some kind of off-the-shelf program claiming it can do everything, but it never will....if you want to done right, use the best, and forget the rest....go to avisynth.org and start to learn how to make you video look professional....