Flicker on Television

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:15 am

Hi Guys,
This is my first post to this forum...hope someone can answer my question. I can burn slideshows to a dvd using Pictureshow 3 and these look fine when viewed on the computer however, when I view these on the television the flicker makes alot of the images unbearable to look at. I have the anti flicker switch turned on in the program. Does anyone know how I can reduce this effect.

Thanks....Tony

angrakiller · Post by **angrakiller** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:51 am

Maybe you can try the 5in1 update patch:
http://www.ulead.com/tech/dps/dps_ftp.htm

This patch can improve some output quality, but I don't know if it works to solve the flickering issue.

pwllderi · Post by **pwllderi** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:18 am

When I view landscapes with trees and leaves - the trees and leaves appear to shake!!

When I view seascapes - the water surface shimmers and appear to move!!

This has happened with both version 2 and version 3 and the patch has no effect.

The effect can be reduced by:-
using DVD rather than CD
trying the images obtained by different cameras and different file sizes
trying different DVD players
trying different TVs - LCD screens are poor for viewing compared to normal flat units
some TVs have antiflickering control to select

Basically, it could be the luck of the draw - but Panasonic LCD TV is appalling. I get better results sometimes from scanned images.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:43 am

Thanks Guys...I have tried your suggestions but to no avail. Probably need to look at other software because the results I am obtaining are very poor indeed.

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:28 pm

If you haven't already, you may want to try an S-video connection to your TV.

pwllderi · Post by **pwllderi** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:56 pm

Crash wrote:If you haven't already, you may want to try an S-video connection to your TV.

More detail please?

Crash · Post by **Crash** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:10 pm

If your TV has an S-video input, you could use an S-video cable to connect your DVD player to the TV.

An s-video cable carries video signals in two components, Chrominance and Luminance, giving a far sharper rock-steady picture than the normal composite (RCA) connection. Also gets rid of danglling particles in the image, often seen as flickering pixels on still images.

tgab · Post by **tgab** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:16 am

Try output in NTSC. I found that anti-flicker is more effective in NTSC rather than PAL.

Thanks.

AB.

pezastic · Post by **pezastic** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:24 am

I have had the same flicker problem referenced in this thread wifth the v3 eval and tried all of the aforementioned remedies to no avail. I had the same problem with v2 and that is why I haven't tried this program again, until now. As I love Ulead (for its MediaStudioPro line), I'll keep monitoring this product for a possible fix in the future.

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:26 am

Any image with hard edges can and probably will create flickering, especially static images. Check out commercials and if you look closley you'll see that all the text is soft on the edges. Open the images up in a image editing app and apply a slight blur or softening affect.

I'm guessing here but that's probably what the anti-flickering filter does. It's just not applying enough softening affect to make a difference.

pezastic · Post by **pezastic** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:02 pm

Even with macros, that would take a very long time in an image editing app to soften all the edges of my images. No thanks. I ended up going with a competitor's product and there is absolutely no flickering and I got all the cool motion effects that DVD PictureShow has. As I said before, I'm hoping for better from Ulead, but I had to go with something in the interim.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:45 am

Since asking this question sometime ago I have evaluted another program called Proshow Gold 2.0 from www.photodex.com that another posting mentioned. The program burns dvds without falling over and there is no flicker on the television. So I am moving to this application as I am not satisfied with the quality produced by Picture Show 3. Thanks to all for your replies and help.

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:39 am

pezastic wrote:Even with macros, that would take a very long time in an image editing app to soften all the edges of my images.

I use batch processing for that, takes about 10 seconds to set it up and let it fly. I'm using a machine with a lot of horsepower so it doesn't take long.

How large were the images you were using, were they really large? That anti-flicker filter probably has a static setting instead of adjusting to the image size..... hence the flickering. I've noticed the same thing with some of my images when using Media Studio Pro.

Anyhow good luck.

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