Video is not smooth

[Fernando Shayani]

I'm converting some home-made videos, but the result on the DVD is not smooth.

I fillmed with my Sony DV NTSC, captured in AVI and edited with Pinnacle. Exported to MPEG2, and it is very good when I play the MPG2 file on the computer.

Then I used TMPGend Express, asking to DEINTERLACE IF NECESSARY and the output to be INTERLACED (my TV is 480i). I also selected the best method for motion detection. But the output is not so good. It's not smooth.

What can I do?

[DVD_Ripper]

How is the quality of the Pinnacle MPEG2's? If they are good enough you should be able to just use them in your final DVD Authoring program.

[Fernando Shayani]

I exported with Pinnacle to MPEG2 in DVD quality (6 Mbps, standard for Pinnacle). The quality is good. But i'm using DVD-LAB Pro to author. Can I just use the MPG with DVD-LAB Pro? I know that it will DEMUX the file, and this will take hours. But with this Demux, it doesnt convert to something else? I was tring to find the best configuration for Tmpgenc...

[State Of Mind]

You can deinterlace video for finalized DVDs. DVD Players are designed to Re-Interlace De-Interlaced video. At least that's what a friend of mine, who is a pro at this stuff, told me. I capture DV with WinDV, trim it in VirtualDub, put in effects with Adobe Premiere Pro 7 and maintain bitrate and codec, then open in TMPGEnc Plus and use a KVCD Modified DV template and convert to M2V (Video only) and extract the audio as WAV and transcode it to AC3 with BeSweet GUI and then use TMPGEnc DVD Author to make a basic design for it, then burn it. Looks beautiful and visually unnoticably different from the original DV source.

[johns0]

Demux with tmpgenc mpeg tools and import to dvd-lab,never de-interlace cause you will throw away half the fields and get worse results.If you want to use ac3 for your audio ffmpeg is much better and easier to use.

[proxyx99]

Try exporting to DV instead and encode with a different encoder. Sometimes I get jerky playback too (which turns out OK on standalone). mainly when I work on old videos (MPEG) captured with upper field first. They play OK until converted to different system, what makes them jerky. I believe it's field order but nothing can fix it (even allowing field reallocation while converting). Try at first to use standard settings without being "too" smart and see what the outcome is. Looks like something is affecting your field order. What are the video players (PC and standalone) u use? PowerDVD has the ability to play smoothly even quite messed up video material so it should not be used to judge the final product (many additional filters which your standalone will lack). Check your video with a simple mpeg player like Media Player, Winamp etc. Restream may be a tool you need to have a closer look at.

[State Of Mind]

Johns0, I deinterlace and my DVDs always look beautiful, so I don't agree with your statement on that.