Flickering Problem on my Burned DVD

hdrechsel18 wrote on 8/7/2019, 9:48 AM

I just completed a vacation travelogue DVD project using Movie Edit Pro Premium. The completed film is 1hr:47min long, consisting of 28 individual films (rendered in MEP) of various lengths. When I play the DVD on my home system, I am getting a lot of flickering - especially in those films where I have used different movement effects. I have made sure that the anti-interlace button is checked before rendering each film - and when I view the individual films separately (and/or the entire film) on my PC, I do not see the flickering. Is this because I am burning to a single level DVD and the quality is reduced? Are there other settings I should be looking at to reduce the flickering? I've been burning my DVDs to a remote (My DVD) application - haven't used the BURN application in MEP yet - is there a good detailed, instructional video on the Burn process? Any help is appreciated. I am working on Windows 7.

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johnebaker wrote on 8/7/2019, 10:08 AM

@hdrechsel18

Hi

. . . . I am getting a lot of flickering - especially in those films where I have used different movement effects. . . .

Without more information we would be guessing -

Do you mean the image varies in brightness or is juddery on pan and movement shots?

What is the video format on the timeline and is it Progressive or Interlaced - use MediaInfo to analyse a source video where the 'flickering' appears, copy and paste the results from the Text view in MediaInfo.

. . . . .Is this because I am burning to a single level DVD and the quality is reduced? . . . . haven't used the BURN application in MEP . . . .

For the length of video, it should fit on a single layer disc - what format and bitrate you are exporting to for the application you are using?

If you use the Burn option in MEP there should be no need for the optimised bitrate setting needing to be reduced unless MEP has determined otherwise.

See this tutorial re burning with MEP - although it refers to MEP 2016 it applies to most recent versions as well.

HTH

John EB

 

 

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hdrechsel18 wrote on 8/7/2019, 10:39 AM

The individual videos are made up of a combination .JPG and .MPG (1280 x 720). The issue I am having is "juddery" - mainly on the .jpg objects where I have applied one of the Move Linear effects to get a L/R panning effect. I have been using a Burn program by Roxio (only because I'm familiar with it), and when I load my movie (MPEG-2) the Quality drops between LP (long play) and SP (standard play) - but that's about all the information it gives me. I'll watch the video you provided (thanks), and get myself more familiar with the MEP burn application. I have a feeling it's the video quality drop, as the individual movies play fine if I burn them. Just wondering if there were other safeguards I'm missing. Thanks