jerky motion in picture when playing burned DVD on a TV

[dzachau]

AFter burning a DVD using Nero and watching it on a TV I notice that when the camera pans side to side there is "jerkiness" to the movement of the characters. When the camera is not panning in the movie, the jerkiness is not noticeable. Watching the same burned DVD on my computer I do not notice this problem. What would cause this? What is the solution?

Thanks for your time in considering this question.


Dave

[guns1inger]

What was the source ?
How did you encode it ?

It is the sort of thing that often happens when a poor encoder is used to encode downloaded avi files and changes the framerate. Nero is a poor encoder for this. NTSC framerates are 23.976 or 29.97. PAL is 25. If you ask Nero to encode an avi file to produce an NTSC DVD, it will encode the video at 29.97 fps, regardless of the source. It does this by adding 5 - 6 duplicate frames every second, which creates jerky pans and zooms. The correct way to encode 23.976 fps material is to keep the framerate at 23.976, then apply 2:3 pulldown so it plays back at 29.97 fps. Nero cannot do this. The only one-click program to do this is ConvertXtoDVD, so if you want a simple solution and not to have do your encoding manually, it is your only choice.

[zoobie]

This is why you watch the mpeg on a television before burning it.

[jagabo]

If it's a very fast jerkiness, like 25 or 30 times a second, you converted to MPEG with the wrong field order.

[dzachau]

Thanks folks. I will try ConvertXtoDVD. Thanks for your time!!