trailing, blurry moving objects on burnt DVD

[TAIKENPO]

I used premiere elements 6 to capture my video and rendered it as DV AVI ~2 hrs (26gb), lower field, 4:3 NTSC, 29.97 f/s. my burnt dvd picture is ok when there's no motion but looks stuttering when objects are moving. I tested with 4.7g dvd and also DL 8.5 but quality is the same, poor and stuttering/trailing. same thing happened using settings NO fields vs lower field vs upper field. I tried using a shorter clip from the same project and the quality now is fine. I used premiere elements to burn the dvd and also the quality is fine. I can't understand why MF cannot handle the larger uncompressed DV AVI? I really like the motion menu MF offers. Help please.

[DVDDoug]

...same thing happened using settings NO fields vs lower field vs upper field.

Just to be clear, you tried both upper field first and lower field first? (This does sound like a field-order problem...)

I tested with 4.7g dvd and also DL 8.5 but quality is the same, poor and stuttering/trailing... I can't understand why MF cannot handle the larger uncompressed DV AV?

2 hours on a single-layer DVD is "pushing it" slightly. What bitrates did you use? Did you use a higher bitrate with the dual-layer disc?

I used premiere elements to burn the dvd and also the quality is fine.... I really like the motion menu MF offers.

I assume Premiere allows you to save the edited file as DVD-compatible MPEG-2, without actually making a DVD? In that case, you can use Premiere for encoding, and Movie Factory for authoring. (Just check the box that says Do Not Convert Compliant MPEGs.) If Premiere can't do that, you can go ahead and make the DVD (or create the DVD folders/files) with Premiere, and then import that DVD into Movie Factory.

[heinz-oz]

I used premiere elements 6 to capture my video and rendered it as DV AVI ~2 hrs (26gb), lower field, 4:3 NTSC, 29.97 f/s. my burnt dvd picture is ok when there's no motion but looks stuttering when objects are moving. I tested with 4.7g dvd and also DL 8.5 but quality is the same, poor and stuttering/trailing. same thing happened using settings NO fields vs lower field vs upper field. I tried using a shorter clip from the same project and the quality now is fine. I used premiere elements to burn the dvd and also the quality is fine. I can't understand why MF cannot handle the larger uncompressed DV AVI? I really like the motion menu MF offers. Help please.

What makes you think that 26 GB for 2 hour footage is [uncompressed AVI[/b] and MF can't handle it? DV-AVI, as it comes from a DV camcorder is around 13 GB per hour but is also compressed, lossless though, but still compressed. MF is designed to handle that type of file.

The results you are seeing must be do to something introduced by your editor of choice or by MF actually recoding your clip because it does no longer consider it to be compliant.

[TAIKENPO]

I tried all three settings at no fields, lower field, and upper field but the results are the same on the 4.7G dvd. I only tried no field (default)with the 8.5G DL DVD. I guess I can try the lower field with the DL DVD to see if there's any difference. what puzzled me was that the same project rendered through the same process (to create DV AVI)but just shorter turned out great when burnt with MF (did not matter what field order or no field).

[TAIKENPO]

by the way, I used the default variable max bit rate at 7000kps for the 4.7g dvd. I used a higher rate at 8200 for the DL DVD.

[heinz-oz]

I tried all three settings at no fields, lower field, and upper field but the results are the same on the 4.7G dvd. I only tried no field (default)with the 8.5G DL DVD. I guess I can try the lower field with the DL DVD to see if there's any difference. what puzzled me was that the same project rendered through the same process (to create DV AVI)but just shorter turned out great when burnt with MF (did not matter what field order or no field).

How did you burn this and to what media? I think we have our wires crossed somewhere here because I do not understand exactly what it is you are doing.

If you change your settings for the bitrate, MF will need to re-render the clip to put more data into the duration. If you do that to an already rendered DVD compliant mpg2 file, you will take a quality hit. You should always start from the source file in DV-AVI to render a new mpg2 file.

Are you telling me that you rendered an mpg2 file back to DV-AVI and it looked good?

[TAIKENPO]

I believe I have a HP burner and used memorex DL dvd or HP single layer dvd. I started with a project through premiere elements and rendered all the captured clips (2hrs) to DV AVI, then imported this DV AVI to MF6 to burn. the quality is not good as mentioned with blurry image due to trailing motion (like trailing mouse) and interlacing problem.

When I used the same project but with fewer clips rendered again as DV AVI (several minutes worth) through premiere elements and then imported to MF6, the quality is good without any of the above issues.

I have now tested burning DL dvd with setting of NO field and lower field, but results are the same.

somehow the larger DV AVI when imported in MF did not turn out right when burnt to DVD; whereas the smaller DV AVI imported to MF turned out perfect everytime when burnt to DVD!