Colour - too dark, Motion - jerky, incorrect setup?

[hnkt]

I am new to video capturing. I've got a Sony Digital Video camera DCRTRV17E-PAL, XMS-750 DVD Player, a Pyro firewire capture card, Ulead Video Studio 5.0 SE. Ulead tutorials suggest I should use templates for DV NTSC because it's "most compatible with your camcoder", it also indicates that other templates (DV PAL...) are OK but the process will be a lot slower. So, I sort of lean to NTSC (while my tv is PAL, and the camcoder also labelled "PAL&quot. I've made my first movie OK (on VCD-NTSC) but the colour is too dark, the motion is jerky. Could it because of my Camcoder (colour appears OK when playing back with camcoder), my capture card or because I used NTSC templates instead of PALs? I don't think it's the DVD player's problem

[tacosalad]

DV is particularly sensitive to anything that alters the frame rate. Converting it from PAL to NTSC would make motion not only rough, but also erratic.

Most users complain that converting DV to VCD makes motion look rough, jittery, regardless of framerate. If possible, convert instead into SVCD and preserve the original framerate and interlace format. Hence, your 25 fps interlaced PAL videos will look best as PAL SVCD.