DVD Workshop2 - Video Output is a blocky green load or rubbish PLZ Help!

[NO-CTRL]

Hi All!
First post here for me
After struggling through DVD authoring for the first time, i have gotten my project in DVD Workshop 2 to a stage where i am ready to burn it to a DVD. The Project consists of a first-play clip (works fine), a menu (works fine), a slideshow (works..), a short info clip (DivX Encoded avi) (works), another video captured from a video camera (DivX Encoded avi again) but when i play it back after burning the Disc, this particular video appears all blocky and green. How ever play back on the PC before i burn it is fine...

Both videos were encoded as Avis on the same computer, with the same codec version. I have no idea why it hasn't worked for this particular one.

Does anyone have any idea on how i might go about fixing it?

Thanks in advance!
Kirbs

[GeorgeW]

How did you capture the video from the camcorder (before encoding to DivX)? I would try to keep it in the original format all the way through editing, and at the final moment, do the encoding from that original format to mpeg for dvd...

By going to divx, you are heavily compressing, and then trying to re-compress something that has already lost alot of detail to mpeg...

And what are your project settings in DVD WS?

Regards,
George

[NO-CTRL]

Thanks for the speedy reply George
I dont know 100% how it was captured - i believe it was from a tape into a HDD DVD Recorder. (As i said, not 100% on it as i didn't do it). But the first play Video and the Smaller Info Video were captured the same way. HOWEVER the only thing different about this video is that i added some Logo's to the video using another program (Which for some reason i cant seem to find on my computer at the moment, or remember what it was called [i have that many on here trying to stumble my way through all this!]) I swear im not really this stupid... :S

Im not sure what you mean by project settings - Its High quality PAL / SECAM if thats what you mean? Otherwise...i don't know..again, sorry, i really am a newb to all this.

[Krispy Kritter]

You could perform the conversion to dvd compliant mpeg manually, that would allow you some control over the conversion and a way to test the file after conversion. Then just author using your new mpeg files instead of the avi files.

[NO-CTRL]

Can you reccomend me a program to do this with please?
Thanks
Kirbs

[p_l]

Can you reccomend me a program to do this with please?
Thanks
Kirbs

TMPGEnc or any of these.

[NO-CTRL]

Thanks for the suggestion - converted the avi to mpeg2 with TMPGEnc sucessfully, which fixed the initial problem.

The DVDWS2 project has an MP3 track playing for the audio - this caused me a few headaches, the program would crash as soon as i added this to the aidio track area, eventually worked around it by converting the MP3 to a WAV and worked perfectly.

All in all im pretty dissapointed with this program, it crashes, freezes, hogs memory and is generally just a pain in the butt to work it. Thankfully the project is complete now and i hope to never have to use it again

Thanks so much for you help though, truely appreciated.
Kirbs