Photos jittering up and down?

Hi all, as a new user to elements 13, I did a quick movie as a practise from some photos and videos.
It was mainly photos with a few clips and was in total about 6 mins long.
I did notice when watching it on TV the photos were slowly moving up and down and were fairly low res, ie horizontal lines. any advice on using photos imported in elements 13?

Styve100
What computer operating system for your Premiere Elements 13? For now, I will assume Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64 bit.
How you (manually) or the project (automatically) setups up the project has a large influence on the results as well as using export settings
that are consistent with the project setup. With that thought, in order to evaluate your situation to get to "better", here is what we need to know
1. What are the properties of your source files
a. photos - pixel dimension (width and height in pixels) and how many photos
b. videos - what format and other properties....knowing the brand/model/settings for the camera that recorded the video can be used to infer this type of information if you have no other means of obtaining it....if interlaced video and destination is DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc, knowing the Field Order: Upper Field First vs Lower Field First.
2. What did you or the project set as the project preset to match the properties of your source(s)? If you do not know, please tell us what you see under Edit Menu/Project Settings/General for
Editing Mode
Timebase
Frame Size
Pixel Aspect Ratio
3. Choice of export...export to file saved to the computer hard drive or burn to disc (DVD or Blu-ray)? Please describe your export settings...
did you use Publish+Share/Disc/DVD disc with preset of NTSC_Dolby DVD or NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD? Your mention of TV viewing
suggests that your export was a burn to disc and that you are playing back that DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc on the TV's DVD Player.
Please review and consider. If I have assumed incorrectly on any of your details, please let me know. If there are questions that you do not
understand, please do not hesitate to let me know. I will clarify until we are in sync since the answers are important. We can go at whatever
pace in the discussion that you want.
Looking forward to your follow up.
ATR

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Help Printing Live Photos
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How to get more Support
FAQ
Can I see an example of what the app does?
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If I print a Live Photo to give to family/friends, how will the recipient know how to view it?
The HP Live Photo app allows you to choose between printing just the Live Photo itself, or printing the Live Photo and a set of simple instructions for your recipient on 4x6 or 5x7 photo paper. The instructions explain how to install the HP Live Photo app and view the Live Photo.
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More information on the HP ePrint mobile app.
HP ePrint mobile app FAQs: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c01923321
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You may also want to try the HP Facebook Photo and Album printing option to print live photos from Facebook shares.
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https://apps.facebook.com/hpprint/
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Create:
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After you select your video, you can use standard iOS video trim functions within the HP Live Photo app to choose your desired begin and end points.
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The HP Live Photo app will display the video trim controls automatically with a 45 second segment selected so you can choose what portion of the video to include.
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HP Live Photo currently only supports videos created on your iOS device.
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If you are on Wi-Fi and the save is taking more than five minutes or not completing, try changing to 3G or 4G, which usually have faster upload speeds than home or public Wi-Fi connections. (Data charges may apply.) You can also try using a shorter video clip.   (If you are interested, you can use services like www.speedtest.net to test your Wi-Fi and 3G/4G upload speeds.)
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Select the Live Photos option (icon looks like a small stack of photos) in the Live Photo app to view the Live Photos you have created. Select one of them to view the photo and choose a print or share option.
How do I delete a Live Photo from my list of saved Live Photos?
iOS: Go to the Live Photo tab and slide your finger left-to-right on the Live Photo you want to delete. A “Delete” button will appear – select it to delete the photo.
Android: Select the Live Photo icon (at the top of the Live Photo app, looks like a stack of photos) to view your live photos. Long press on a live photo a context menu will appear with Delete and Share options. Select the Delete option.
Share
I’m having problems printing a Live Photo that was shared to me.
See the Printing Live Photos section above for general information and assistance with printing HP Live Photos.
Can I use the app to view a Live Photo on my computer screen?
Yes. If you share the Live Photo via email or Facebook, recipients can use the HP Live Photo app to view the Live Photo on screen and see the video. Results can be affected by the monitor display resolution and type, as well as ambient lighting.
My friend doesn’t have an iOS or Android device. Can I share my Live Photo with her?
At this time an iOS or Android device is required to view the videos associated with your Live Photos.
I just need the viewing instruction sheet – how can I print that?
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I have a Live Photo that does not play when I view it through the HP Live Photo app. What’s wrong?
Below are some reasons why this could occur:
The photo is not an HP Live Photo. Look for the small blue icon of a bird in the lower-right corner of the photo to confirm it is a Live Photo.
The person who created the Live Photo must be either one of your Facebook friends, or you must connect to them by entering their nametag (printed on the bottom-right of the live photo) in the View screen in the Live Photo app.
The Live Photo needs to be printed on photo paper for best results.
Ensure sufficient light is available for viewing, and minimize any glare or shadows on the photo.
The creator of the Live Photo may have deleted the Live Photo project from their app. Contact them to confirm it is still available.
An internet connection that is too slow/unstable.
Can I view Live Photos with other augmented reality apps?
No. HP Live Photo requires the HP Live Photo app to view the images and display the video.
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If you are unable to find an answer to your question in the FAQ, Printing Live Photos, and Troubleshooting sections above, you can get support via email for the HP Live Photo application at the following email address:
[email protected]
To ensure a quick resolution of your support question, please provide:
A clear subject line - e.g., “Live Photo – printing problem”
A complete description of your problem – what you are trying to do and what is going wrong.
What iOS mobile device you are using
Your printer make/model
Note that we do not have the necessary information to provide support for photo printing on non-HP printers.
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After running hardware tests, the Genius told me that my iPhoto library was too large and that was what was causing iPhoto and iCloud photos to hang. Even though he acknowledged that the QTKitServer operating system file is not supposed to hang. The Genius put in an additional 8 Mb memory to see if adding more memory would help (apparantly iPhoto is supposed to give back some memory when you close it and it does not). So Apple is not flushing memory when an App is closed. Apple's apparent solution is to add more memory that you have to purchase. However, the same three files kept not responding even with the additional memory. So I passed on the additional memory until I get the iPhoto problem solved. He also said my external hard drive, a WD 2TB hard drive that I bought from the same Apple retail store two or three years ago, looked like it was failing because there were lots of disk I/O errors in the system log, even though the drive appears to work fine and disk utility reported no problems when I ran Verify Disk on the external WD drive two days ago. I do not use this drive hardly at all (I backup my iMac to my Time Capsule), exept to keep a backup copy of my iPhoto library and Documents folder, and it has lots of original pictures that are not in my existing iPhoto library. I copied my iPhoto library and Documents folder to it last night and they seemed to copy fine.
So if my iPhoto library is really too big, and that is what the issue is, my problem is that there is no apparent way to break up my existing iPhoto Library into multiple small iPhoto libraries, without losing all of my keywords, titles, photo edits, event names, album names, folders and projects etc. The last time I tried breaking up my iPhoto library into smaller iPhoto libraries, even though I told iPhoto to export keywords and titles, it did not. And the Genius did not know if it would work now or not.
My question is to those of you who have large iPhoto libraries and are using Mac OS X Mavericks and iCloud Photos - how big are your iPhoto libraries? What is too big? Does anyone have an iPhoto library the size of mine that is working fine (who is also using Mac OS X Mavericks and iCloud)? When I talked to Apple online support, they said big iPhoto libraries are 100,000 photos and up. The Genius said anything over 1,000 is big. That's quite a spread. Currently I have 24,000 photos, most of which have been edited in some way or another, and about 1/2 of which have new titles, mulitple keywords assigned, faces and places assigned, etc., since I imported the original master photos. The Genius told me to duplicate my existing iPhoto library, create a new iPhoto library, import all of the folders in the iPhoto database except the Masters folder, and see if iPhoto still hung. If it did, he said it was all the data attached to the photos that is the problem, in which case I would need to create another new iPhoto library and import only the Masters file (images only). I think if I import only the Masters from my existing library, I will lose not only all of my keywords and titles, but also all of my photo edits, event names, album names, folder names, projects etc.
So I wasted an entire afternoon at the Apple retail store, only to buy a new external hard drive (that I may not even need), was told to buy more memory (that did not solve the problem - I passed on that), and I am no further ahead than I was when I went in. I need to know if there is any way that I can break up my iPhoto library into smaller libraries and retain all of the metadata and photo edits?
Finally, when I got home, I discovered that my husband with whom I had shared some of my photo streams, still had photos showing in shared photo streams that I had removed from iCloud two days ago. It removed them on my iMac - the place where those streams originated, but apparently left the thumbnails in the shared photo streams of everyone that I had shared the photos with. As soon as I clicked on an actual photo on my husband's iMac, the photo suddenly vanished and all the photo thumbnails in the stream did too. But the empty shared photo stream still remained on my husband's iMac and he had to physically say "Unsubscribe" to get it to go away. So something is not working right with iCloud photos, which is no doubt why iCloud photos is one of the files that keeps not responding.
Then, when I set up my iMac again this evening, and looked at iCloud on my iMac, all of my photo streams (not just the four that I had removed two days ago) were gone! And when I went into Aperture, the photo streams were all there, but with zero photos in them. Now last night when I boxed up my iMac to take to Apple, those photo streams were all there and they all had photos in them. So where did they go? And why, when you are the originator of a photo stream, and you tell iCloud to remove the photo stream, it says that it does but it leaves remnants of it with the other people you have shared it with? It seems to me that iPhoto, iCloud, and the fact that Apple is not flushing memory when an app closes is the problem with my iMac, not the size of my iPhoto library, or my external hard drive, or the fact that 8Gb of memory is apparently no longer enough memory for decent response with Mavericks (which I thought was designed to help solve some of the memory issues that OS X has).
I need help and help is apparently nowhere to be found at Apple.
Is there anyone out there who can help me?

If you're using iPhoto 5 as you say then, yes, 24k photos is heading close to the Limit of 25k. iPhoto 6 is good for 250,000 images, iPhoto 11 is good for 1,000,000.
I'm going to guess that's a typo and that you have iPhoto 9.5.
I've simply never heard of "too many photos" causing the problem you describe. You don't need more memory. You don't need to break up the Library. "Flushing Memory" is a non-isssue. One of the big improvements in 10.9 is in memory management.
There are a couple of ways to break up a Library while preserving everything. It's dead easy with Aperture - export projects as Library - you can do it with iPhoto simply by duplicating the Library and deleting from the two libraries or use iPhoto Library Manager.
But, as I say, 24k is a small Library. My main library is more than twice the size of that.
Are Aperture and iPhoto using the same Library?
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Post back with the result.

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Make sure that the EXT Drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.

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