I recently created a movie using Adobe Premiere 6.0 and exported the
movie in DVD Mpeg format using Canopus ProCoder. The original footage
was edited in Pinnacle DV AVI format. The Mpeg was then loaded into
Nero Vision 4 for DVD authoring.

The problem I am seeing is that when I record the movie to a DVD and
view it on a TV, anytime the camera moves the image appears to
flicker/blur. At first I suspected it was something to do with
interpolation but I have tried encoding the video in both
EvenFieldFirst and OddFieldFirst both with the same result.

Please can someone give me any other ideas as to what might be causing
this problem?

Thanks!
Nick

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I recently created a movie using Adobe Premiere 6.0 and exported the
movie in DVD Mpeg format using Canopus ProCoder. The original footage
was edited in Pinnacle DV AVI format. The Mpeg was then loaded into
Nero Vision 4 for DVD authoring.

The problem I am seeing is that when I record the movie to a DVD and
view it on a TV, anytime the camera moves the image appears to
flicker/blur. At first I suspected it was something to do with
interpolation but I have tried encoding the video in both
EvenFieldFirst and OddFieldFirst both with the same result.

Please can someone give me any other ideas as to what might be causing
this problem?

Your source video has the wrong field order. You might be able to tell
Procoder (in the source options) to use the alternate field order to
whatever it's currently set to.

I think the cause of the problem is earlier than this, though. If this is
the case, you may still get flicker at points such as transitions.

wrote:

The problem I am seeing is that when I record the movie to a DVD
and view it on a TV, anytime the camera moves the image appears
to flicker/blur. At first I suspected it was something to do with
interpolation but I have tried encoding the video in both
EvenFieldFirst and OddFieldFirst both with the same result.

Could you post a short clip (say, 5 to 10 seconds) of the finished
MPEG-2 video in web space somewhere?

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znark

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I recently created a movie using Adobe Premiere 6.0 and exported the
movie in DVD Mpeg format using Canopus ProCoder. The original footage
was edited in Pinnacle DV AVI format. The Mpeg was then loaded into
Nero Vision 4 for DVD authoring.

The problem I am seeing is that when I record the movie to a DVD and
view it on a TV, anytime the camera moves the image appears to
flicker/blur. At first I suspected it was something to do with
interpolation but I have tried encoding the video in both
EvenFieldFirst and OddFieldFirst both with the same result.

Please can someone give me any other ideas as to what might be causing
this problem?

Thanks!
Nick


Does the DVD authoring take a long time?
I was just thinking that if it does Nero could be converting to the field
order it thinks is required, no matter what field order is used in the MPEG
encoder.

Thanks for the responses everyone, I managed to fix the problem last
night.

In order to determine which codec to use, I exported from Adobe
Premiere a small clip that involves a lot of camera movement. I
exported this clip using 5 different codecs and then imported all of
those clips into Nero Vision project for recording to a DVD. Nero
Vision re-encodes all imported clips to DVD Mpeg format before burning
to the DVD.

Here's what I found:

1) Export Canopus ProCoder OddFieldFirst from Premiere, import into
Nero Vision and burn to a DVD- suffers from the severe flicker problem
when viewed on a TV.

2) Export Canopus ProCoder EvenFieldFirst from Premiere, import into
Nero Vision and burn to a DVD- suffers from the severe flicker problem
when viewed on a TV.

3) Export Canopus ProCoder NonInterlaced from Premiere, import into
Nero Vision and burn to a DVD- looks fine but does suffer from some
loss of quality when viewed on a TV.

4) Export Pinnacle DV AVI from Premiere, import into Nero Vision and
burn to a DVD- looks perfect on a TV and results in the highest quality
since the video is only converted to MPEG once.

5) Export Pinnacle MP2 from Premiere, import into Nero Vision and burn
to a DVD- looks OK but not quite perfect due to the small loss of
quality caused by re-encoding of Pinnacle MPEG to Nero Vision MPEG.

After having performed the above test I selected Option 4 since it
yields the highest quality and encoded my entire project. Now the DVD
looks great!

I'm wondering if you have Sony Movie Studio around to compare? My guess is
that it should be better but it's my personal guess.

Just D.

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Thanks for the responses everyone, I managed to fix the problem last
night.

In order to determine which codec to use, I exported from Adobe
Premiere a small clip that involves a lot of camera movement. I
exported this clip using 5 different codecs and then imported all of
those clips into Nero Vision project for recording to a DVD. Nero
Vision re-encodes all imported clips to DVD Mpeg format before burning
to the DVD.

Here's what I found:

1) Export Canopus ProCoder OddFieldFirst from Premiere, import into
Nero Vision and burn to a DVD- suffers from the severe flicker problem
when viewed on a TV.

2) Export Canopus ProCoder EvenFieldFirst from Premiere, import into
Nero Vision and burn to a DVD- suffers from the severe flicker problem
when viewed on a TV.

3) Export Canopus ProCoder NonInterlaced from Premiere, import into
Nero Vision and burn to a DVD- looks fine but does suffer from some
loss of quality when viewed on a TV.

4) Export Pinnacle DV AVI from Premiere, import into Nero Vision and
burn to a DVD- looks perfect on a TV and results in the highest quality
since the video is only converted to MPEG once.

5) Export Pinnacle MP2 from Premiere, import into Nero Vision and burn
to a DVD- looks OK but not quite perfect due to the small loss of
quality caused by re-encoding of Pinnacle MPEG to Nero Vision MPEG.

After having performed the above test I selected Option 4 since it
yields the highest quality and encoded my entire project. Now the DVD
looks great!