DVD is choppy after burning

[StevePaul]

Hi. I’m working on a project for my company taking TV spots that are on several DVD's and recompiling them in a new order for a sales meeting. All of the production was created by an ad agency. Watching every ad on the existing DVD on a DVD Player, they run smooth and are not choppy or jittery.

When I create the new DVD, I am taking several DVD’s, copying the entire content to my local drive; (into their own directory) then I insert them in to a new timeline in PE7. There are 9 TV spots ranging from :15 to :30 seconds each. After the burn of the DVD the total disk space used in only 256mb.

After I burn to DVD, and watch on my local system, they seem to run flawlessly. When I brought it home to watch in my DVD player, some of the ad’s were choppy and some ran smoothly. It really is not the quality that I can distribute to our sales team.

System: Dell Optiplex 755
Processor — Intel Quad Core2 Q6600 @2.4GHz
RAM — 4 GB
O/S — Vista Business - SP1: 32bit
When I run PE7 all other applications are closed to allow maximum process time to PE7.

Can someone help? Am I missing something?

Steve

[Paul LS]

Welcome to the forum Steve.

Is it jumpyness/jerkiness when there is motion? If you are placing MPEGs (from DVDs) in the PE7 timeline you probably need to apply reverse field dominance. Right click on the clips in the timeline, select Field Order and the Reverse Field Dominance.

For more infomation see this FAQ over on the Adobe forum: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bbebe4f

[StevePaul]

Thanks Paul.. I hate being a newbee..
All of the files are .vob I’ll try that now.. Thanks. But the weird thing is that It only occurs on about 50% of the clips. And it most is where there is motion.

[Paul LS]

Yes that is strange... the field order issue should only be noticeable on video with motion.. the reason being the order of playback of the interlaced fields is reversed. Other option is to deinterlace the footage in the field options window... ie use Always Deinterlace.

By the way, I assume you DVD is fairly short, 4 or 5 minutes. If so the about 250/300Mb is about right.

[StevePaul]

Paul, just to make sure that I understand here;
When doing this I always want to have it in BFF. Looking at the videos using Gspot, the ones that are jittery are I/L- TFF. so that would make sense.
A couple of the other jittery spots are in Progressive vs. I/L. What can I do in this instance?

Ok I was wondering which option it was. I selected none to start, but have since updated with your post..

[Paul LS]

Hi Steve, yes any TFF videos should have the Reverse Field Dominance applied. The progressive videos should be fine, however you could apply the Always Deinterlace option to these.

[Chuck Engels]

Just wanted to jump in and say Welcome to Muvipix Steve

[StevePaul]

I burned a dvd and found that the progressive spot was is also choppy, so I will do just that.. Thanks for all your help Paul..

[StevePaul]

Thanks Chuck.
I've need lurking on the site for a while and have always been able to find the resolution to my issues without having to post. It's a great site!! Thanks to you and Steve for putting it all together. One day soon I hope I will be able to help someone as well...

[Steve Grisetti]

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[StevePaul]

My Applogies... Thanks to all that have allowed me to lurk here for the last couple of months providing me the info I've been looking for... Thanks Ron.. We wouldn't want Steve and Chuck standing on the corner. That would be a great waste of talent... along with everyone else..



Steve
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