Artifacts In DVD

I have a I DVD (I DVD 6) project that i have burned to 2 different DVD's ( One Printable & 1 Non Printable- Both Verbatim DVD-R) and i keep getting Artifacts in the 5 same spots. I have checked the Original Mini DV tape and the I Movie project and the 5 areas in both are artifact free. I am working on a I Mac G5, have 30 GB of free space when burning and making a disk image and burning the disk with the Disk Utility tool. When i say Artifact i mean the picture will break up into little square boxes.
Anybody have any ideas ????
Thanks Steve

Well, at 1hr 45min you are getting close to the maximum compression that iDVD does. More compression=more artifacts.
i am doing a slow zoom out of the Bride & Groom (Very little motion) and get Artifacts
Keep in mind that the mpg-2 compression used works on the frame-to-frame differences - and the more the difference from frame-to-frame - the more artifacts are generated.
The othe cases it is lower light conditions (50 Watt light on the camera) and lots of party lights (Strobes and blue lights) and people dancing and waving
Low light usually means more electronic noise - which causes major frame-to-frame differences. Dancing and waving means lots of frame-to-frame differences as well.
I suggest you cut the content into 2 pieces, with neither piece being over the 60 minute limit of 'Best Performance'. 'Best Performance' will produce a DVD with the least compression you can get with iDVD.
i was wondering if something in the Mac was stating to go ??
I doubt it! Just remember, the better the original content quality, the better the finished DVD will be.

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Encoding artifacts in DVD-SP

I am ready to tear my hair out. I have been working on this project for over a year. I finished it once and sent it the owner of the company in Sweden, who sent it out to an outside firm to author the DVD. They added some titles that he wanted -- did it poorly, and completely screwed up the menu authoring. I told him that if he would spring for FCP, I would author the DVD the way we want it. I have been doing all of our proofing with iDVD for years. I have the menu working perfectly and looking just the way we want it, but the video is showing weird artifacts when the subject is an object turning at high speed. The artifacts are not there in the mini-DV tape, in FCP, in QT or when encoded by iDVD. I have set the encoding preferences to two-pass VBR and "best" but they're still there -- better but still there.
So for the experts, here are my questions.
Is there ANYTHING I can do to make DVD-SP encode like iDVD or in some other way that will not deliver these weird artifacts?
If not, and I have to encode outside DVD-SP, is there any way to make sure that when I re-import the track, my chapter links (about 80 of them) are maintained?
If I have to encode in Compressor, how should I set that up to get the output I'm looking for?
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DVD player artifact issue on certain player only

Can anyone tell me please why this is happening!!
I'm nearly finished with a documentary project. It's 64 minutes long. I used the DVD 90 minute Best settings with Dolby audio in Compressor and DVDSP build and burn. It works fine in the simulator in DVDSP and in my home and office DVD player. But my client gave me six pages of notes reporting what she called "skipping". I re-tested the DVD in my player and still wasn't seeing an issue. So I watched it on her player and noticed some artifacting and dropped frames.
I thought it might be due to a dirty player. So I had her do a cleaning and there will still some issues though not as many.
Why would this happen?
I'm concerned because if I cannot even see the problem on my players, how will I know if I've solved it? I've searched the forums and found similar questions, but nothing exactly like this.
Grateful for any help you can provide:)

There are MANY reasons why certain players skip and others do not. Some players by nature are better designed to play DVD-R. Some are simply more forgiving. While one player happily plays over problem areas, others choke.
Most of the times, the problem results from poor quality DVD-R media. There are actually 4 different grades A, B, C & F! You should ONLY be using A grade media.
Those cheap 100 disc $19.99 spindles at the local Costco, Wal-mart etc., may sound like a deal, however, most are useful only as drink coasters and even when a disc gets recorded to what may seem to be correct, in actuality, is not.
Surf to http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/index.htm for more details on which media you should be using.
Are you by any chance using a PAPER LABEL on the disc? If so, STOP. Buy printable surface media ONLY. Invest in a Bravo printer and you won't go wrong.
Many players do not handle media well with a paper label on it.
Finally, make sure you're burning a 1X (yes I said ONE TIMES) speed! Errors will creep up in quick burns that will also result in problems.
If you are doing everything right, it could be her player!
Regards,
Darren

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I've been pulling my hair out for days as I export endless new sequences at different settings and then burn DVDs, only to find that the problem does not go away. The issue is the infamous "jigsaw" artifact effect, or whatever you want to call it, meaning that when viewing the resulting DVDs, when the camera pans, images "tear" and kind of spazz out. This seems most noticeable when panning past straight vertical objects, but is not limited to only this circumstance. My suspicion is that this is all the result of an interlacing issue in iDVD, but I have certainly learned that I am capable of overlooking the obvious or being wrong. What I don't understand is that with all of us out there working on Avids and using iDVD, either there does not seem to be a unified ideal export setting that resolves this issue, or I am having a comparatively unique problem. The shame is that most of the DVDs are looking great, and it is only this one issue that is sabotaging completion of this project. I'm at my wits end, so any and all knowledgeable help is supremely appreciated. Help me keep my hair.
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Avid Software: Avid Xpress DV 3.5.0
Editing system info: Mac G4 "Mirror door" model - Dual 1.2 Ghz PowerPC - memory 1024 MB
OS Software on Editing System - OS X version 10.2.3
Quicktime version on Editing system: QT version 6.3
Software used to burn DVDs: Idvd 8 version 7.0.1
Computer used to burn DVDs: MacBookPro3,1 - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz (codec downloaded from Avid and installed - prior post about video not displayed in QT exports was due to missing codec)
Quicktime version on Computer used to burn DVDs - QT Version 7.4 (92) (with Pro upgrade)
DVD media used: TDK DVD-R 8X 4.7GB
Info on sequence I am burning - A 1 hour and 50 minute program of African wildlife footage all shot on regular mini DV tapes. Camera used was the Panasonic AGDVX100A on the 24 frame setting that does not require a software fix (the correction is done in camera). All the footage was digitized using this camera. When viewing any of these exports afterward within quicktime player, the "jigsaw" is not visible. It only becomes visible after burning them and then watching the dvd. All burns in iDVD 8 are using the "professional" burn mode.
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1) Exported at "same as source" from Avid yields arguably the absolute worst result, as I rather suspected with the whole field / interlacing issue, but I was feeling hopeful.
2) Trying to bypass Quicktime by using "dvstream" as the export setting also yields a very poor result. This jigsaw problem does not occur, but the resulting image is terrible. Very milky blacks, the compression is worse, as in much more noticeable, than any other export, and the image is soft and thin looking, rather anemic, and it ruins the visuals completely. What is a bit odd to me however is that I had been using dvstream to burn DVDs of other projects for years on prior versions of iDVD and it never seemed to be a problem. As I tried this one first, without having the Avid codec installed in my MacBook (which I use to burn as I can run iDVD8 on it, also meaning that trying quicktime reference is not an option, I must export, then move the completed export to my macbook pro), I am currently exporting it one more time to see if installation of the codec fixes the horrible compression and color result, but I am not hopeful at all.
3) Tried using an Avid forum suggestion that recommended using 720 X 480 - crop/pad - RGB color levels - even (lower field first) - native dimension 720 x 480. No good.
4) Another Avid forum suggestion to try the "Animation" setting for video
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comes up as the export nears completion and aborts. This message does not appear
with any other export setting. When cutting my sequence in half, the same problem occurs. Even if I could get it to work, the result would be useless if it meant I had to send people several DVDs of the program chopped up into little bits.
5) Heres a summary of other export attempts all using Quicktime movie and "Avid DV" for video, keeping in mind the info I read about how at least one version of iDVD had the field order (ntsc vs pal)reversed a while back. I would expect that Apple has fixed this problem by now, but just in case...
a) odd field - 720 x 486 - 601 - crop/pad - 4:3 Non-square
b) odd field - 720 x 480 - 601 - crop/pad - 4:3 Non-square
c) even field - 720 x 486 - 601 - crop/pad - 4:3 Non-square
d) even field - 720 x 480 - - 601 - crop/pad - 4:3 Non-square
Suggestions to buy a different dvd burning program or new software are nice and all, but I simply cannot afford it. I also have a fear that if I were to try a different program that the same darn thing would happen, as no one seems to be able to say with 100% certainty that this specific problem would be fixed. The only thing that would be worse than my sense of hopelessness and helplessness at present would be spending more money and still not having this maddening issue be resolved.
Help... and thanks to any of you who take the time to read this epic length post and reply!

PROBLEM SOLVED! Thanks to having downloaded Toast 8, the dreaded interlacing has disappeared. The first test made me nervous. I exported from Avid using Sorenson and using the "automatic" settings for Toast's detection of fields etc. The DVD still had the jigsaw at the same spots, but it was not as pronounced as some of the tests with iDVD. I then exported "same as source" and used the advanced settings in Toast to tell it "lower field" and maxed the compression settings as much as I could without exceeding disc space. The DVD result is the best looking I've seen so far and all interlacing artifacts are gone! Thanks to Blackdog at the Avid Forum. I now know this interlacing problem was 100% the fault of iDVD 8 and will be using Toast from now on.

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First off, thanks to everyone for all your great suggestions.
Agreed that the material was compressed to begin with. (Begin rant)...I'm amazed that so many people have a finished DVD they've spent hundreds on, yet apparently have no access to source material or even assets. No matter how I try to explain why the finished product won't look as good as what they gave me, the response is "it's DVD--DVD always looks great. Why can't you make it look great?" (end of rant, thanks...)
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I'm trying to export a long feature film that has been exported from After Effects to HD uncompressed 10-bit in HDTV (rec. 709) color space, 1920x1080, 29.97.
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***** First Analyzed File Results *****
*** General Parameters ***
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- Format: Apple ProRes 422
- Size: 27.7 GiB (97%)
- FourCC: apcn
- Track number(s): 0
- Bitrate: Max.: Undefined
   Average: 91.7 Mbps
   Min.: Undefined
- Frame rate (fps): Max.: ---
   Average: 50.000
   Min.: ---
- Bitrate mode: Variable
- Encoding profile: Undefined
- Resolution: Undefined
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- Height (Pixel number): 720
- Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1:1
- Display aspect ratio: 16:9
- Chroma subsampling format: Undefined
- TV standard: Undefined
- Interlacing: Undefined
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- Format: Uncompressed PCM
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- Number(s) and language(s): 2: Undefined
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- Resolution: 24 bits
- Rate: 48.0 KHz
- Channel(s): 2 (stereo)
- Position: Undefined
- Encoding Library: Undefined
- Additional Parameters: Not available
*** Miscellaneous ***
- Subtitle(s): No Subtitle
- Metadata: Album: Undefined
   Part number: Undefined
   Track name: Undefined
   Track name number: Undefined
   Performer: Undefined
   Screenplayer/Writer: Undefined
   Genre: Undefined
   Encoded date: UTC 2014-03-08 09:25:52
   Comment: Undefined
   Album artist: Undefined
   Grouping: Undefined
   Copyright: Undefined
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Chris:
Hey, you have been active this weekend !?!!?
Does anyone know why? I exported as Quicktime (self-contained). I did n ot use Compressor because I could not get it to work. I do not understand why I am having this problem. It really scare me because I thought I'd get good results with 24p video.
Encoding in DVDSP gives you less control to your encoding that using Compressor. I know you had some troubles:
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