"John W" wrote

Hello all,

I wondered if someone could help me. I have copied some video off my
MiniDV camera onto my computer via an IEE1394 cable using Windows Movie
Maker set to 25fps PAL. I edited the video and added captions etc. then
saved the edited video as an AVI 25fps PAL. When I play this AVI video
using GOM Player it looks great.

Things start to go wrong though when I try to create a DVD from this AVI
file.

The way to avoid this (field order/deinterlacing) problem is to either

save the edited video .avi in the same format as the source- 25 FPS PAL DV
or
export the edited video back to the camera.

Then use a DVD authoring programme. I use Ulead DVD Movie Factory which will
allow you to make your DVD from either the saved .avi file, or go straight
to DVD from the camcorder in real time.

hth

Neil