When I create DVD's using PE3, they come out shaky on playback on a DVD player. The recommended fix of reversing the field dominance does not change this. It seems to be the way Adobe creates the images from the raw avi file when frame rates are changed.
I import a PAL avi file of a sequence originally recorded at 16 2/3 frames per sec (cine film from an old movie camera). As a check before I burn a PAL DVD, I export it to disk as a PAL avi movie and use Interpret Footage to tell it the source video is at 16 2/3 frames per sec. If the software did this right it would be a 3 for 2 frame conversion in which the original frame sequence like 1,2,3,4,5,6,... etc. would convert to 1,2,2,3,4,4,5,6,6 etc.. This will reproduce motion at the right speed with minimal jerkiness when played back at 25 fps. I have looked frame by frame at the file created, and the problem is that Adobe PE3 instead creates a sequence of 1,2,2,2,4,4,5,6,8,8,8...etc. In other words it has actually dropped out some critical frames, and that is why the playback is jerky. Reversing field dominance does not change this. In any case these are avi files, and not interlaced. And I see the same thing if I burn a DVD directly. It seems to be a fundamental flaw in the way the intermediate frames are created.
Has anyone seen this too, and are there any suggestions as to how to avoid it?
Andrew SWT
