still images twitch when converted to mpeg

[morr1s]

I made a video in Premiere 6.5 consisting of still images with dissolves and background music. No matter which compression method I use, when I burn it in Nero as a VCD most of the dissolve transitions come in blocky. The further I get into the song the worse it seems to get. I could probably deal with the blocky transitions, but worse the pictures begin to twitch. The pictures always twitch in the same when I play it back. Since they are stills I tried dropping the frame rate to 15 and send the song out uncompressed and then compress that avi to mpeg and got the same results. I tried the video without transitions, and still got the twitching. In some spots it twitches so bad it is almost unwatchable. If I make the Premiere AVI file an MPEG in TMPGe it is even worse. I tried to use the mpeg convertor in Premiere and that also did not help. It is a half hour family video and all the other songs that contain moving video look great. Whatever solution is available I need to be able to combine this last "still picture" song with the rest of the completed video. I export each song individually from the Premiere time line and combine them in Nero. I am giving copies to family members with various brands of DVD players so VCD is my only option. Thanks for any help.

[morr1s]

I don't know if this will help anyone else, or if this would work again or maybe I just got lucky. I ended up taking the avi, (which was fine until converted to VCD), and making just that one song into a SVCD with Nero. Then I opened the MPegAV folder in Nero and took out the .dat file it made and copied it onto my hard drive. I then dropped that (SVCD) file back in Nero in VCD mode and it said it needed to be reencoded. After reencoding I had a standard VCD and the photos looked fantastic with only a very slight jitter on a couple of pics instead of major jitter on most of them. Does anyone else have a hard time with still photos and VCDs?