Still Pictures (scans) in timeline and encoded for DVD?

[hiptune]

Hello,

I am doing a reel for a model that has video footage and magazing covers and 11 X 14 color pictures.

The video part went without a hitch, but the pictures are not all coming out right. Perhaps my format is not ideal. Here is what is happening.

I scan in 400 or 600dpi and save to bit map after resizing the photos each to 10" high. After these bitpmaps are dragged into the timeline in Vegas and output to AVI, the slide show type video looks great. But by the time it is encoded and being shown on my TV from the final DVD, some of the pictures have faint white lines running vertically through the entire picture (like my scanner did it). But some of the others look stunning and perfect. I would say 1/4 of the 46 pictures have these streaks that do not appear on the original bitmaps when looked at enlarged. It 9is most noticable mostly on the black areas of the effected pictures.

So I converted to PNG thinking this might be a better format anyway for stills to mpeg2. No such luck here, the same pictures look the same.

This is not happening to most of the pictures, only a some of them. Anyone out these a pro and picture scans to DVD? What am I doing wrong? I could rescan the worst ones, but I have a feeling there is a trick to still photos in DV footage, no?

[guns1inger]

Resolution for DVD is 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL). Any images you put on the timeline will be resized down to this resolution.

If you have Photoshop CS then you can resize using the NTSC non-square pixel template and then try using this on the time line.

Also, make sure you have the project and encoding settings set to Best, rather than Good, and all tick Reduce Interlace Flicker