"John S" wrote in message
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"John S" wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply, I have tried a number of video converters and
AVS Video Converter 6.2 was one of them. Unfortunately the output
to DVD has the same judder as with Nero 8
The fundamental problem is that the camera can only record at 30fps
and UK DVD PAL is only 25fps. It would appear to be impossible to
convert from 30fps to 25fps without removing frames and this is what
leads to
the juddery effect. I'm starting to think that to produce smooth DVD
motion
for UK one has to use a camera which can record at 25fps. Such a shame
because
in every other way the Xacti HD1010 is a really great little camera. I
notice that
the Panasonic HDC-SD9 which is similarly specced and priced
has 25fps mode so would solve this problem.
Still would be very pleased to hear from anyone who could solve the
problem with the Xacti.

Did you buy the camcorder in NTSC-land? Is that why it does 30 fps rather
than 25 fps? I don't think there is a *good* way of translating 30 to
25 - even professional broadcasters (eg American news reports from the
USA) show very noticeable judder on movement or panning - and that's with
sophiticated modern blending of frames rather than just dropping every
6th one.

Thanks very much for your follow up post. I have also come to the
conclusion
you are right that the only way to make good looking UK PAL DVD's is to
use a
25fps camera. I may still keep this one as I think some newer HDTV's and
Blu Ray players
direcly accept the SDHC cards with MP4 movies on and are happy to play at
30fps when
required to do so and hence look great.
I would simply have to buy a 25fps camera (and with lower resolution too)
to create DVD's

Xacti HD1010 purchased in UK from Camerabox.
I dont think they make a special model for the UK, this is the spec on the
Sanyo UK website.
http://uk.sanyo.com/Products/View/VPC-HD1010

That records in MPEG4 with H.264 codec, the frame rate will be 24fps.
Type into google:
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Then do a second search on:
Converting MPEG4 24fps to PAL 25fps
Also go through your camera's instructions, Or Sanyo's Europeasn site and
their support links, there may just be a setting to change recordings from
default 24fps to PAL 25fps?
Or, the cam may have come with software that may allow capture at user
defined fps, "source" (24fps), or PAL or NTSC .
Apparently Nero8 software has a "recode" option for MPEG4 at 24fps, and
supposedly is very successful at converting, but Nero8 isn't free.
And of course the best site for all things video:
http://www.videohelp.com/