DVD made with Ulead Video Studio 10+ is a bit jerky

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DVD made with Ulead Video Studio 10+ is a bit jerky

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I have just started with Camcorders & have done my first DVD using a Sony DCR HC 47E camcorder & Ulead Video Studio 10+. The unmodified video from the Sony is nice & smooth looking when played on the PC so I made a very simple DVD using Video Studio 10+, ie I only added a tittle and no music. When I play the DVD most of the time it is OK but on some shots the picture is jerky when it wasn't on the origional. Is this normal or is there away to get round it.
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You might find considerable value in reading the workflow suggested in this (written by one of our most experienced and senior members):
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 512#101512

Your camera is a mini DV one. Thus, you should have captured your video from it in DV format and using the Firewire connection to your computer (called i-Link in your Sony manual). You do all your edits in that format. Then at the end of it, you convert the edited DV to DVD-compatible mpeg-2.

In doing the latter, it is essential that you maintain the same Field Order as the original video. As it was (or should have been) DV, that would be Lower Field First. And you burn your DVD using this mpeg-2 and maintaining the same properties. If by chance you reversed the Field Order to, say, Upper Field First or Frame Based, then the DVD would appear to be jerky when played back on a standard TV, particularly is fast moving scenes or when panning.

If by chance you captured direct to mpeg-2 and did not use Lower Field First throughout, then again you would have the sort of problem you described.

But as I said at the outset, read the suggested workflow and come back to us if you still have problems.
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Ken, thanks for the info, I have printed it out and will have a go using your recommendations
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