Memoriesontv question again

[njti]

After I burn the cd, the movies have this "rippling" showing and it's annoying to watch. Never did this before. Anyone have any suggestions as to what is happening? Thanks in advance. nj

p.s memories doesn't recognize my HP DVD Writer 400c, so i use nero driver and save an image then burn with "burnatonce" software.

[Treebeard]

are you talking about the transition effect? you can select what transition you want to use b/w pictures or set it as random. that the only rippling thing I can think of.

[Capmaster]

njti,
In the future, if you have additional questions about it, please edit your topic title and add an "s" at the end of "question" instead of starting a new thread. Thank you

[njti]

Okay, shld have known to do that on "questions", thanks.

No, I'm not talking about transitions, it's the video portions that are looking ripply - I've mixed jpegs and movies (avi). They don't look ripply (or jumpy) when I watch them on the computer, just after they are burn on the cd and I watch them on t.v. screen.

[DaveS]

njti - can you be more specific about what you are seeing? you need to use a process of elimination to narrow down what's going wrong..if you can be more descriptive about the ripples, it may help others help you, or post a screen shot

do you have tmpgenc to encode the avi's with? if you use that from MOT, do the results differ? How about if you just use the AVIs and no pics?

[njti]

Well Dave, I'm not that good I've just used memoriesontv and added a few video's with my pictures the last time and the cd came out okay. (I just purchased a video card for the computer (Dazzle) and have a canon z45 videocamera). I input the video's into the computer using Windows Movie Maker and save little sections. This time however, I can't explain it other than being ripply (or wavy) after I've burned the cd. An effect like this: "((((((" (not sure if you know what I mean) seems to show up in the pictures- I can't really send the .avi because it plays fine on the computer. My son mentioned something to me about cucusoft avitovcd - converting the avi file - which I wanted to use about 40 of them (the largest reads 106,416 kb). If I have to do this, it will take quite awhile I think. I tried burning at a lower speed and it didn't help. I'm not sure what tmpgenc is or does. normaj

[Noek]

interesting, I didn't know that memories could import .avis

Only thing I can think of is to output to your HD, then run Nero and burn using Nero....choose Generate new video only and choose a folder to burn to.

[DaveS]

norma - let's try to isolate (what and) where the problem is....

- just to clarify, is the rippling in the pictures or the video portions?

- what media are you buring onto, a DVD or CD?

- what format are you using in MOT ... DVD, VCD, or SVCD?

- when you say the problem doesn't happen on your computer only when you view the media, what files are you viewing on your PC (e.g. the AVi's or the final rendered image or the MOT preview?)?

If you can answer the above maybe we can narrow down what's happening..it's a little hard to tell what you are seeing, or why, but let's try...

[njti]

"just to clarify, is the rippling in the pictures or the video portions?
- what media are you buring onto, a DVD or CD?
- what format are you using "

-rippling is the video portion only - the pictures are just fine.
-so far I'm only burning onto a cd with my HP DVD Writer as I don't have the mp plug in for memories on tv. MOT doesn't recognize this writer and I have to load the NERO drivers.-I'm using "VCD". (The only thing I'm interested here is the quality of the videos only, the pictures are fine)

[DaveS]

that helps .... are you able to buy the mpeg plugin for MOT? If so, I'd suggest that, or you could license tmpgenc and use that instead (but I know you aren't familiar with it).

This is only speculation, but if your project looks ok on the computer but not on the TV, my guess would be that its from the mpeg1 that MOT is generating for the VCD. Using the plugin will let you do mpeg2 either as svcd or dvd format.

Since you do have a dvd burner, I'd suggest getting a re-writable DVD, getting the mpeg2 plug in, and burning your project as a DVD format onto DVD media.

If you can't get the plugin, then you can download a trial of tmpgenc and use that to create mpeg2 (which would at least isolate the problem).

Again, this is only specualtion on what you are seeing as 'wavy', but if you have a lot of videos, your project will be much better in mpeg2.

Also, you should check your DVD player for compatibility with the re-writables...click DVD Players on the left side of this page, and find yours and make sure it can read the re-writable (e.g. so if you do a test project on it you will be able to watch it).

Hope this helps...

[njti]

Thanks Dave - I am trying to use the DVD+rw that I have (as this is the one that my HP Writer says to use). Can't get it to recognize when I try to burn, so I'm burning on a CD-RW (like i've done in the past and it worked ok). MOT doesn't recognize my HP writer and I have to use the Nero Driver, save as an image (.cue) then burn it to the CD-RW using BurnAtOnce. I'm generating a new video in MOT - using the DVD setting (and it tells me that that a watermark will appear, etc. because I don't have the mpeg plug in - well, I have the trial version) which is okay, as I'm using a re-writable anyway. I don't plan on purchasing it until MOT gets an update that will recognize my DVD Writer. (Actually come to think of it - I think all my problems started with this new DVD Writer - I just purchased a new computer). Still don't think this would be the reason that my video's don't turn out the same as before. I'm starting to think about having a drink - might help..he he. Too early yet though.

[njti]

I just finished burning an evaluation copy on my HP DVD Writer and onto a DVD+R and the videos are working fine now - so it is definitely the mpeg PLUG in that I need. I didn't need it before so don't know exactly what had happened here. Thanks for your help though.