Is the FPS of a MiniDV camera higher than the FPS of DVD video?

[granturissimus]

i tried 3 different programs to record my home movies from my minidv camcorder onto a DVD. on the camcorder, the video plays back smooth like water, but when i convert the video to DVD format, the video becomes more choppy, as if there was a drop in FPS during conversion.

i capture video to DV-AVI format, and then convert to DVD format, and thats what happens.

[jagabo]

DVD is capable of displaying 480i video (what most DV camcorders shoot) when properly made. You need to encode as 720x480, interlaced, bottom-field-first. Then author the DVD as such. It sounds like you may have encoded as progressive or top-field-first instead.

[filmboss80]

As jagabo says, DV-AVI is bottom (or lower) field first. You have told us absolutely nothing about how you are encoding that footage to DVD (what software and what settings), but it indeed sounds like you left your encoding settings at either top field first or progressive. Field mismatches will definitely result in jerkiness -- especially in motion shots.

Try a few test encodes using 10-second clips at various settings until you get the best results.

[granturissimus]

i downloaded DVD Flicker from this website, and i tried making a DVD in it out of an DV-AVI file, i was able to remove the interlacing by selecting the option, but the framerate still didnt look so good.

how do i make sure i have bottom field first in flicker? or what other free program will allow me to select BFF and burn a dvd?

[poisondeathray]

Don't deinterlace it. When you single rate deinterlace you throw out 1/2 the information (drop 1/2 the fields). Encode it interlaced and your dvd player and TV will handle it normally (bob deinterlace)

Try avs2dvd

[edDV]

DV 720x480i has 59.94 motion samples per second (as fields). If you deinterlace to progressive 29.97 fps, half the motion samples are lost.

[granturissimus]

Don't deinterlace it. When you single rate deinterlace you throw out 1/2 the information (drop 1/2 the fields). Encode it interlaced and your dvd player and TV will handle it normally (bob deinterlace)

Try avs2dvd

well avs2dvd works much better it seems.

what is the maximum bitrate i can set in the program for the dvd? 8.5mbits? will a disk play in the dvd player if i set the bitrate to like 13mbits? will that make the quality better? how what bitrate should i pick to make about an hour of video fit on a dvd?

[edDV]

Max video+audio+srt, etc is 9800 Kb/s. If you use PCM audio that works out to about 8250 max for video. For AC3 or Mp2 audio you can max video around 9500 Kb/s.

See https://www.videohelp.com/dvd for details

Also see the bit rate calculator
https://www.videohelp.com/calc

[jagabo]

The maximum bitrate for everything on a DVD is 10080 Kbps. The maximum for the video is 9800 Kbps.