Really really small lines in DVD playback

[Stephen Mann]

Without seeing what you are describing, I strongly suspect that you are seeing compression artifacts.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Glenn Angel]

hmmm ok

so ill try doing a playback then take a screen shot then post it…

i think thats my best option!!

(5 mins later)
Found an example. It shows the lines on grooms jacket. This is the best example i could get easily, but it always occurs when there is large horizontal panning by me

https://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy138/gambi3r/weirdlines.jpg

[Matt Crowley]

These are interlace lines, and might be caused by the media player not correctly handling your video. However, you might have accidentally used the wrongs settings and made a video that contains the interlace artifacts.

Try playing the DVD in a normal hardware DVD player and TV. If you still see these lines then you need to re-render your video with the correct settings.

You should be rendering from your 1440×1080 HDV project directly to the DVD format using the DVD Architect Video Stream preset under the Mainconcept MPEG2 render format in Vegas. Don’t do an intermediate 1280×720 render because that just takes extra time and the quality suffers.

[Glenn Angel]

However, you might have accidentally used the wrongs settings and made a video that contains the interlace artifacts.
What kind of settings should i check for? Interlacing etc?

Try playing the DVD in a normal hardware DVD player and TV. If you still see these lines then you need to re-render your video with the correct settings.
I do get them on a tv with normal dvd player… but what are the correct settings i should try using?

You should be rendering from your 1440×1080 HDV project directly to the DVD format using the DVD Architect Video Stream preset under the Mainconcept MPEG2 render format in Vegas. Don’t do an intermediate 1280×720 render because that just takes extra time and the quality suffers.”
Im going straight from my project which is 1280×720 (not 1440×1080) to the above mentioned mpg2 format. SHould i try changing my project to 1440 then retrying? Im not rendering twice, its just my project is not 1440×1080.. perhaps thats the issue?

[Matt Crowley]

You should normally set your project settings to match the source video (especially if you plan to render to multiple formats), or the desired output format (such as NTSC DV widescreen) if you have different input formats.

Try setting your project to match the source video. In the Project Properties panel, there’s a little film-strip icon called Match Media Settings. Click that and pick one of your source video files to use its format as the project format. You *may* get some slight change of cropping or positioning of events because you’re changing the frame size of the project.

Then try a re-render of a short segment to test. You shouldn’t have to touch interlace settings if you use the render presets when rendering to MPEG2 for DVD.