To all video editors out there, I need your help. I recently used DVDxDV to import the clips I shot from my Sony DVD camcorder to edit in iMovie. Everything worked well and the final movie looked perfect when I viewed it in iMovie. Then I was able to burn the DVD in iDVD without a problem. The only thing was that when I played the DVD on my dvd player, the video looked very awful! By awful I mean that there was a studdering / "shaky" effect especially during pans when the video is in motion. I read somewhere that this is because of the wrong FIELD ORDER during encoding. It said DV is bottom field first and DVD is Upper field first and that I should encode to DVD as upper field first or top field first depending on application. I really don't know what this means. I tried using ffmpegX to encode but the result is still the same. I'm really so confused. Henjie, need your help again on this one. Thanks
What you have is an interlace flicker. Try to deinterlace the video in ffmpegx. If you still can't, you might want to try de-interlacing it in Adobe After Effects if you have one. I'm not too sure if FCPHD has deinterlacing features. I really can't recall if it has one.
Try this. 1) After editing in Imovie save it as a Quicktime File. 2) Import or drag it to Idvd then save it. 3) Restart your machine before burning the movie.
