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AVID DVD by Sonic — *field dominance?*
Hey, does anyone use this program?
My friend needs help…I use Sonic DVDit, so I assumed it would be similar, but I like mine a lot better.
He has a problem when he creates both:
-A quicktime ref. exported from AVID Xpress
-MPEG2 DVD spec with Sorensen Squeeze
His problem is that when he burns the DVD, on an NTSC monitor, the picture flickers. I had this problem with DVDit, but was able to fix the problem by setting field dominance to “lower” by right-clicking on the media (within Sonic) and going to properties.
I have researched this, and can’t find a field-dominance setting in AVID DVD by Sonic. I assume because it knows you will be importing AVID DV or D1 files which are by nature *lower field first*. But I can’t figure out why he is having this problem, and can’t work towards finding a solution.
Thanks in advance for any help….
btw,
I love the cow!! -
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I followed this tutorial to the letter…it’s actually the first place I turned when we started having problems.
Number one — The QT ref that I exported is (or should be) using the lower field dominance of the original digitized clip it is referencing.
Number two — I did make sure in Sorensen that lower field was dominant in my MPEG2 encoding.
Is it possible that it isn’t a field dominance issue? Anyone else had a problem like this?
-Jason
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What is the source footage from specifically?
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The project was digitized from MiniDV shot with a Panasonic (don’t know model).
Edited with AVID Xpress pro.
And like I said, we have worked with exported QT ref & Sorensen compressed MPEG2 files. Both exhibit the same problem.
-Jason
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