Video quality on DVD deteriorates halfway into replay

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dtracy

Video quality on DVD deteriorates halfway into replay

Post by dtracy »

I completed setting up a 42-minute movie using VS9. Everything in the preview looks and works perfectly, start to finish. The MPG file I created also replays perfectly, start to finish. However, when I burned the DVD and replayed it (on the PC using Windows Media Player and PowerDVD and using a standard DVD player to show it on a television), the video and menus look perfect until about half to three-fourths of the way into the replay. At that point the video becomes "jerky", i.e. it stops and starts sporadically while the soundtrack plays without any interruption. Toward the end of the replay, the video becomes completely scrambled. This 'scrambling' occurs on all devices I have replayed this DVD on, including the PC.

I have burned many movies using VS8 successfully and recently upgraded to VS9. This is my first effort using VS9. Is this a VS9 problem? The settings on VS9 I used for this movie are:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
also, 100% compression quality

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.
heinz-oz

Post by heinz-oz »

I have had similar problems with MSP 7. My problems were identical to what you describe. When I made a new burn of the same project to another disk, the problem was gone.

I think your disk may have too many errors. That is a problem with disks in general, not of ULEAD's making. Try to stick with good quality disks. No name, cheap disks, often turn out the more expensive because of exessive errors.
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