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  • Interlacing(?) DVD Issue

    Posted by Bronwyn Lamarque on May 30, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    HELP! I am trying to submit for a competition and, after exporting a QT then burning a DVD and subsequently playing back through a regular television monitor, my video looks jagged (offset rectangular shaped) and weird. It particularly happens when there is alot of motion in the shot. It looks horrible… this is a real problem.

    I’ve been working on it for two weeks and have tried all types of different resolutions and export settings but nothing helps. At this point, all the cute dvd menus can’t help an actual project that looks bad so I’m thinking about just doing a hard, crash record/burn directly to a DVD recorder. But I’d like to be able to try something else to preserve a bit more professional look to the DVD menu if I can, first.

    Any suggestions? I have a feeling it might be an interlacing issue… but have never run into this before… I’m perplexed.

    Thanks!

    Kris Anderson replied 16 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Michael Phillips

    May 30, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    What’s the project type? Format type captured? what are you using to encode to MPEG2? What are those settings?

    Michael

    Michael Phillips

  • Grinner Hester

    May 31, 2009 at 12:00 am

    You will need to mixdown all of your video before exporting the QT reference. Sounds rediculas but better still. lay it off and recapture it, if using Avid DVDit as your motion effects will still show interlacing if not. This is not Avid DVDit’s bi=ug, it’s Avid’s. The meridien line did not have this issue nor does DS.

    if using encore or something of the like, you can get away with just mixdowns… still a drag for storage.

  • Kris Anderson

    May 31, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Just checking the obvious things… is your project set to the same standard as your video (PAL/NTSC)? It could be trying to transcode when it burns. I know with Toast it defaults to NTSC, as do most American made products.

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