Movement has a visual distortion (trailing image)

[Twheels]

Thanks to some on this forum I have successfully created a dvd from avi. Now I have a new question that I tried the search feature for, couldn't find and answer...so...

Moving arms and legs leave ghosts or 'trails' similar to the old superman movies where Christopher Reeve would run, the camera would show a blur behind the actor, indicating speed. That's what's happening in a limited way on my project.

I hope I am making sense.

Is there a way of processing the video which will eliminate this distortion?

[filmboss80]

Trailing is a sign of overprocessing. Did you use noise reduction, time-based correction, or any other filtering in the process? If so, you need to tone it down until you get a happy medium between image enhancement and motion without so much trailing or image lag.

[poisondeathray]

Maybe you can outline the process, software and settings used from AVI=>DVD

Did the original AVI have "ghosting?"

[Twheels]

Maybe you can outline the process, software and settings used from AVI=>DVD

Did the original AVI have "ghosting?"

I should have looked before at this...

Yes. It does. It's hard to tell on my 19" LCD monitor, but it is there.

So the problem is the means of capture?

I am going to experiment with Dscaler, my capture program of choice. I have just turned off 'sharpness', 'Judder Terminator' and 'Noise Reduction'.

Is there something else I should look at?

Thank you for putting me in the right direction to correct this problem!

Twheels

[poisondeathray]

I'm not familiar with dscaler, but if your input signal differs from your capture settings, that could help explain your observations

[Twheels]

How can I tell what my input signal is, and how can I tell if there is a conflict?

[poisondeathray]

You'd have to give more information: i.e. what are you capturing, how you have it set up etc...

e.g. if you captured an interlaced source , and the program applied blend deinterlacing, you would get ghosting