Still pictures and titles vibrate on my dvds

Still pictures(photos and titles) edited with Final Cut vibrate on the dvds I burn with DVD Studio Pro. What can I do?

How are you exportin g from FCP? You should use Uncompressed (8 bit/10-bit) whihc helps cure some quality issues. Some color combinations also seem to "vibrate" more and also smaller fonts can do that. In general larger fonts (20pt+) Sans serif work well if you can use them.
If you have a bit more detail of the entire workflow you are doing, it mmay point to what the problem may be

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Grainy Still Images and Titles

I've just completed about a 10 minute film utilizing still images and video clips. It was made with the Adobe Premiere Elements 3 that came with my Sanyo Xacti camera, running on Windows XP. The video looks great all the way up until the end. I have two still images that I use that I have overlayed titles on them. The first one is a rolling title from bottom to top (like movie credits) and the second one is a still image where the text just appears and then disappears. The problem is that the pictures are extremely grainy and pixilated. Other still images that I use in the movie do not look that way, and they were taken with the same settings as the pixilated ones. When I pause the movie the picture looks normal, but when I hit PLAY it goes back to being grainy. I can only assume that the word overlays have something to do with it.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and is there any way to make the background pictures sharper and crisper with the text overlaying it?
Thank you.

Guys, thank you so much for the help so far. I really appreciate it.
Steve - The line above the stills is green. I have rendered the film and it looks fine in the view window except for the pictures in question.
Hunt - I exported the movie to a Windows media player file and played it on that. The results for those two pictures was the same.
I imported the images through the PE "Get Media From" tab. They were on a thumbdrive that I had imported the to from my camera.
They are both JPEG images. The first is 2816 pixels in width and 2112 pixels in height. With a vertical and horizontal resolution of 72 dpi and a bit depth of 24. The focal length was 6mm.
The second is 2112 pixels in width and 2816 in height. The rest of the info is the same.
The pictures look fine when it is paused, it is only when it is playing that they are grainy and unfocused.
Thanks for the help. I am continuing to work through the Help topics in search of an answer.
I'm making this as a gift for my girlfriend back in the states while I am deployed here in Iraq and I am trying to make it perfect. Thanks again for all of your help.

How can I make a slideshow with pictures and burn it to a dvd? what program to use?

how can i make a slideshow with my pictures and then burn it to a dvd?

Apple's builtin "iPhoto" application can do that easily. Open iPhoto and click on "Help" at the top of the screen for assistance in creating it.
Hope this helps

Is there any way to turn off the auto formatting in Pages? I just want to type a letter and add pictures and titles, and Pages keeps changing font sizes and doesn't let me "Do it my way". I HATE this!

Is there any way to turn off the auto formatting in Pages? I'm using a blank document, so I figured I could write my letter and add pictures any way I wanted to. But NO! Pages keeps changing the font size! I typed a large heading as a title, and when I try to change to a smaller font for the body of the letter, it changes the size back to the larger size! I am getting SO FRUSTRATED! I've spent over an hour trying to get the stupid program to let me just type my letter! Can anyone help?

The only one left is the "unsubmitted text" dialogue, which would not be a problem if I were not a Facebook user; after updating the "Richard is..." field (which does not require a manual submit to actually send) I get the above message. This is obviously Safari just not realising that the info has been sent and is therefore (I imagine) one for Apple themselves to answer!!
You're welcome Rich. Glad to help.
Not being a Facebook User, I'm not sure how to respond to the error situation. However, this would be something to report to Apple as a bug via the Safari Menu. First, open to the page in question, then select "Report Bugs to Apple".
Mahalo for the and Aloha from Big Island.

Premiere 9.0 locks source files for still images and title background

I am using Adobe Premiere 9.0
In this version - I hjave used two previous - I have problem while uppdating images inserted in timeline and backgrounds of titles. While editing them in Photoshop I get a file lock error. Either i have to:
Close Premiere, edit file and then restart
Last time I did this I had problem to get image updated within Premiere. It still showed wrong image in timeline and while rendering but image gallery showed right image
or I have to save to a new filename and then insert image/background once again in timeline/title (that takes some time - pew!)
I had the same problem in three different installations of my laptop and two different hardwares. Last laptop and installation is about two weeks old. It is a brand new Dell with WIndows XP. Adobe Premiere 9.0. All sourcefiles is on my own harddrive - nothing on the netdrives.
Any ideas?

Abotu operating system - I am in the hands of IT dept
They are planning upgrading to Windows 7. But not within the timeframe of current projects.
The image imitation I wasn´t aware of. Is that a definied/stated limitation in Adobe Premiere? To me the intuitive image size while working with 1920 x 1080 screen is making images in same size.
The laptop is completely new. I am definitely sure about a non-defraged-disc. 92 GB used 306 GB free.
It dept say the hardware should be sufficient. Even the earlier laptop they tried to get working had enough capacity due to the stated demands Adobe have.
Intel(R) Core(TM)
i7-3520N CPU, @2.90GH
2,89 Ghz, 3.41 GB RAM
PAE (Physical Adress extension)
4 GM memory,

I am unable to select any title or picture and drag it to the timeline

I was working with this proyect normally and suddenly it stopped me from doing it. Please help!!!
I have the little hand as the cursor, I do not know if that might be teh problem.

iMovie'11 on a mac.... The project is not long at all... just 4 minutes long, only pictures and titles, no videos included. It is very strange, I tried to reset as you said, and it worked perfectly afterwards, now it is doing it again and again, it gets frozen and then I cannot drag the titles or pictures into the timeline above. It is doing weird stuff .... for example, I am working normally in the project and then I add a title, when I play the project the title that I placed appears over a picture... or sometimes it appears completely black. I know I am not adding the title over the picture....so do you think there is something wrong with the app itself?
Thanks for your help.

Pictures disappeared, titles and audio still play

Hello Forum,
I made a slideshow in iMovie 09 of pictures from my vacation and specially fitted songs and titles into it. When I had finished, I clicked on the Optimize Video (Large) choice in the File menu, thinking it would make my video better. When the optimization had finished, I tried to play the movie, but now instead of seeing the pictures, audio, and text put together, all I see is a black screen along with text and audio, and there is no option to undo optimization. This problem persists even in both full screen mode and after the project had been prepared to be exported into iDVD. The strange thing is that all of the pictures are still present in the project pane, but when I try to play the movie it just won't show them. I don't want to have to restart because I've put so much work into this. Could somebody help me solve this problem?
Thanks,
plato428

I called it "making a montage of my favorite movie clips." It is what it is. Just how I said it. I do stand up impressions part time and sometimes, believe it or not i get recorded, or I record myself and "make a montage of all my favorite movie clips" or scenes from a movie or anything for that matter. So as illegal as that is I apologize that you want to monitor that stuff.
So lets step out of our assumptive sheriff shoes and stop hazardly guessing at anything that you would disprove of. Everyone else has been very helpful. Besides, all these questions centralize around a basketball highlight video I am making for a coach, that I myself recorded and own the copyright to, to be specific and hopefully clarify your hunch.
As a video editor you also often receive footage with numerous formats depending on who you're working with. Not everything is an illegal transaction that you assume it to be. Thanks

Hi... I am looking for an inexpensive app for my macbook pro that I can put pictures and videos together into a slideshow with captions and music WITHOUT a watermark and that also will burn the slideshow to a DVD in its own app. Help?

Hi... I am looking for an inexpensive app for my macbook pro that I can put pictures and videos together into a slideshow with captions and music WITHOUT a watermark and that also will burn the slideshow to a DVD in its own app. Help?

The issue with the A1400 is that like most economy compact cameras, they will not have very fast focus times in indoor lighting situations. Many people have gone to entry level DSLR's (Canon T3i) or micro 4/3 cameras. They are fairly expensive, but a late model refurbished T3i can sometimes be found with a kit lens for about $300.00. With Auto and scene modes, as well as full manual modes, these are very versatile cameras that focus very quickly, even in lower lighting situations. Canon is not really into the micro 4/3 cameras, instead they are focusing on the new G7x and G1x cameras, which are way out of your price range. The A720 is still available used at some places such as KEH camera, but you'll need to check often as their stock changes constantly. Obviously the DSLR's don't use AA batteries, but the T3i is good for about 600 photos (or more) per charge.
My refurbished DSLR was practically brand new condition when I got it. I could not find any sign of wear at all, so I feel they are a real bargain. These are rugged cameras that are made to last. The A1400 is a $99.00 camera, so it's not intended for heavy usage, plus the image quality of a DSLR (even entry level) is far better than the A1400. That would be my recommendation.
Steve M.

How to avoid Moire Effects (jiggered still pictures) using iM and iDVD.

This is a discussion going on forever and forever in this forum. I had the problem of bad looking slideshows myself, and I am hearing the same tips over and over again that just don't work. This is what I found out on how to avoid moire effects in your still images, when you want to edit a slideshow using iMovie - and I personally think, this explanation makes a lot of sense.
Try it on your own and you will have had the last bad looking still image slidehow on the TV screen ever!! Here we go:
Like everybody here I am talking about the process of creating a slideshow incuding movie strips in iMovie to get as a final result a DVD with menus and such using iDVD.
And the common problem with stills and iMovie 5.02 are the so called jiggered pictures iMovie creates. Call it a moire effect, if you'd like.
Whenever full resolution still images are importet from iPhoto into iMovie, the quality that iMovie will spit out in the end is disgusting. Period. Just disgusting.
It has nothing to do with that iMovie does not display it properly on the Monitor or we are just in preview mode - the results are bad there and will be bad (maybe even worse) on the TV screen.
There is no SIGNIFICANT difference between wether the pictures are imported with KB on or off, whether they are imported as still frames or as video clips using iMovie "import" function. iMovie can treat the color fairly bad, overprocesses the pictures and - worst of all, the moiree effects you will see in the endresult are just very very bad. It is worse when the pictures are panning a lot (KB).. This is true for every picture containing a lot of detail (Trees, Forests, horizontol lines (stairs) etc.) - not so bad for closeup face shots, unless that person is really old
There is no SIGNIFICANT difference on the result by how the iMovie project is fed into iDVD. When the movie is sent to iDVD using the iM command "send to..." the quality is worse (and you let iM render when it asks) than if the movie is dragged into the iDVD window - but again, the difference is not significant. The result will suck. The DVD will also look bad, when the iMovie is exported has high res quicktime first, before imported into iDVD. Again, its slightly better that way, but not significant.
Whenever a slideshow is created in iPhoto and than exported to iDVD (or via being a quicktime movie through iMovie into iDVD) the result will be however stunning. But that totally defeats the purpose of iMovie and the degree of freedom of designing slidehows in a very appealing manner.....
The problem I think lies in how iMovie processes still images. And this is not a bug, but more of a mathematical/programmatical problem. iMovie has to REDUCE THE RESOLUTION of your still. A 2000x3000 pixel image @ 300 dpi(roughly the dimensions of a 6 MP image) has to be downsized to a TV image (NTSC or PAL, whichever) which has a resolution of approximately 480x640. HD is accordingly higher. The amount of pixels has to be reduced. iMovie can do that. NOT GOOD. But it can. The problem starts when the picture is panning around (KB). iMovie makes a let us say 5 second movie @ 30 fps out of one still image. Almost every frame will be slightly different from the previous one due to the used KB effect. So, the routine of iMovie does this downsize calculation for each single frame - and it removes each time different pixels from the still image, due to a slightly different source still image. Got it?
Now, when you look on how moiree effects occur (which is some weired math in it's own) than it makes sense, that we see all this jiggereing in horizontol lines of high res. patterns.
I found that if I reduce the size of each image in Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) prior to importing it into iMovie, the quality of the final product that iMovie and subsequently iDVD spits out in the end is AMAZING (reduce the dpi to approx. 72, so the image resolution is roughly 480x640). This is not a difficult process, because both programms (PS and PSE) handle BATCH PROCESSING. Just let the Mac work for a couple of hours or so.... its WORTH IT (and don't forget to make copies of the high res originals beforehand... :D).
(before you resize, find out about how to properly resize and rescale an image!!!!)
I am slightly annoyed that I found that out after producing a long long long long and really good slightshow, that is watchable but looks REALLY cheasy and cheap).
I hope this helps out.
Waenni
Mini G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I agree that iMovie's still image quality is embarassingly bad and has many bugs.
Even with no Ken Burns, the sharp images tend to flicker on a TV because iMovie doesn't blur them properly.
And as you very well described, iMovie's Ken Burns produces uneasy zooms/pans because the subpixel rendering is, uh, suboptimal.
iMovie's immortal rendering bug when exporting non-Ken Burns'ed images to iDVD/tape doesn't make things any better.
Yes, bicubically downsampling the input images to 640x480 or adding gaussian blur to the megapixel input images takes care of the flicker and uneasy zooms/pans, but as a side-effect the maximal zoom-ins are then TOO blurry.
The best workaround is to use Photo To Movie's higher quality export setting. It has the best quality rendering engine (I recently compared it to Still Life and FotoMagico). Disclaimer: I'm just a satisfied customer of Photo To Movie.
See also:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#slideshow

I do underwater video and add still photos to the video I create. When playing the video the still shots show distorted lines in any design in the picture and as it transitions to the next photo it clears up for a split second. What is causing this?

The photos are clear for the firt instant the appear during palyback and for the 3 or 4 seconds they are on the screen any pattern or design in the photo, say a patterned tablecloth, the pattern goes wavy, distorted, and then at the last moment before moving on the photo goes clear and smooth. It looks like when the picture goes in the "freeze" mode it distorts and when releasing for the next photo it smooths out again. This is really messing up some very good underwater still shots and land photos. I'm using a transition between photos and not using Ken Burns effect. Could use some help on this. Thanks.

so. to summarize your workflwo in my own words:
you're applying 12Mpix stills to an iMovie project
(btw: what setting has the iM project…?)
iMovie doesn't do interlaced internally…
you then 'share to iDVD'
as far as we know, iM converts to some h.264 file…
iDVD has to convert that again, to finally create a standard DVD:
720x480pix, interlaced = 0.3Mpixel resolution (yes, zero.point.three )
and, you're watching via a projector - most projectors have a non-video-resolution e.g. 800x600, 1200x800:
again, scaling effects.
so, tons of scaling/resizing, tons of comversions …
a) use any graphic tool (your Mac's Preview.app?) to scale the pics BEFORE import to iMovie to your Projects resolution (1920x0180, 1280x720, 720x480); choose tiff or png as doemat, avoid jpg
=> this avoids lossy scaling effect in iM
b) if DVD is your only delivery media, set iMovie's Project preferences to your TV-Standard (PAL/NTSC)
c) from iMovie, use 'Export using Quicktime', and in its options, choose AppleIntermediateCodec as … codec
=> this exports iMovies internal timeline without lossy conversions
d) set iDVD manually to same standard as your iMproject, 25/PAL or 30/NTSC
e) stay under 60min of length to allow max. quality
f) try to find a resolution on that laptop that comes close to DVDs res; synch res of laptop with proejctor
g) consider iDVD solo to create a slideshow; avoids any lossy 'inbetween steps' due to iMovie; very limited in terms of 'creation' … creates a slideshow (with music and transitions)
h) consider to avoid the DVD process at all; export from iMovie a 'file'; use a usb-stick to transfer to playback-computer; allows HighDef! DVD is SDef only ...
to create a file whic is compatible with any computer, follow my advice here:
How to create a video for playback with Windows/XBox/PS3/… etc?
For maximum quality of stills, I would use iDVD only (disk, but SDef only);
or avoid disks at all, create a charming HDef iMovie project and transfer via stick

Still and title transition problem

Premier Pro 1.5
Encore 1.5
1H 52Min finished SD video
All video content SD DV, same settings, same camera, same master tapes
All stills 480 max or 720 max with a black video layer below
All titles made in PP1.5
Many music tracks along with native audio from the clips
Everything went great, all transitions, stills and titles look good in the timeline. All looks good in the single file avi export from PP1.5 as played with windows media.
As soon as I import the avi into Encore 1.5 to author the DVD, a few transitions between stills and/or titles get scrambled. It happens on about 3 random transitions out of maybe 50 - 100 of them. Sometimes a transition effect (fade) is involved, sometimes there is no effect. An example is 2 stills or titles adjacent to each other with the same duration. After the import to Encore the durations get hosed and the second still or title flashes for less than a second.
Any ideas? Other than this problem this long and involved video is flawless.
Thanks,
George

For anyone following along at home. George got his Project done, and reports on it in this THREAD in the PrPro forum.
Good luck to all,
Hunt

Hello..Does anyone in this community know what the following error code indicates   0x8002006E   I was trying to burn a DVD from files in a burn folder. They were pictures from my Nikon camera. I can play videos and movies from the same dvd player.

I was trying to burn a DVD from files in a burn folder. They were pictures from my Nikon camera. I can play videos and movies from the same dvd player.    Thanks for any help you can offer,

Thanks for your reply:
I did find an error log related to the error code and tried all suggestions on the list of recommendations, still no luck
I definitely am running OS X10.5.8 (hopefully will be updating later on this month)
I tried several brand new discs from the same box, still no luck.
My last option is to go out and try a different brand, guess I'll go with Verbatim this time but I think I'll poke around some more before buying 20 more new discs.

Weekly AD, buy as pictured and I still don't get the offer? Bait and.....

I went into your Ames Iowa store today and ended up wasting an hour of my time. I purchased "How To Train Your Dragon" blu-Ray D&D digital exactly as pictured in the ad on page 13 with a list price of $9.99. The AD shows that there should be "up to 7.50 in fandango cash to see dream works home in theaters March 27." I bought the product (again exactly as pictured) and when I opened it up to look for the fandango code, there wasn't one. I bring the product back and the in store customer service rep (who was very nice) dialed the corporate customer service for me so I could speak with them and try to get the code. At some point the corporate customer service rep asked to speak to the in-store rep. After the in-store rep is transferred 3 times and has to explain everything agin 3 times she was hung up on or got disconnected. I ended up having to return the disc and the associate said she would look into it for me. I also checked the shelves for all the other movies in that special box and found they matched picture for picture what the ad showed, and did not show any fandango information on the outside of the box.
When I got home I checked the Internet to see if I could just buy it from the online store and low and behold it shows the version with the fandango cash to be 19.99 and is no way in shape or form the product that is pictured. I also saw no little numbers marking a fine print saying that the blu-Ray with fandango was not as pictured or would be a different product. I recieved an email back from the customer associate who was helping me saying she was having trouble getting a straight answer, but bassically said that stores can be affected by inventory levels and some items may not be available at some stores."
While I am pleased that she tried to figure it out, I still feel like there was deception on the part of Best Buy. The ad deceives by showing that can I buy a product as pictured (namely the Blu Ray purchased) and receive the offer, yet the product with the offer is not the one pictured, and further more there is no small print or other saying this. Even the employees at the customer service desk were perturbed as they couldn't understand why the AD would do this and the amount of extra headache they will probably encounter from other customers misleadingly buying one of the offered Blu-Rays and wondering how to get the promotion. This almost seems like a classic case of Bait and Switch.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello jdgate,
I just watched How to Train Your Dragon 2 last week with my younger siblings. While I’ll admit I would have watched it with or without them, most of my attention was on the poor sheep or Toothless himself. I’m slightly obsessed now, and I’m determined to get my hands on my very own Nightfury (don’t logically tell me they don’t exist… I won’t listen ).
For me, Toothless is incentive enough to buy this movie, but it would be incredibly disappointing if I didn’t receive the Fandango credit advertised in our weekly ad, especially if our phone agents and store associates weren’t able to provide you a reason as to why. We should be making every effort possible to find you answers, and I’m sorry if we failed you in that respect.
From my understanding, the Fandango promotion isn’t one we are regulating or offering, but rather promoting, so we would typically refer you to them for assistance. This could be problematic if you didn’t receive the code in the first place though, as the codes are usually provided inside the packing of the DVD/Blu-Ray. While I don’t have a way to provide you this code on the backend, I have sent you a private message to discuss this matter further. You may view it by logging into the forum and clicking on the envelope icon in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
Thanks for posting,
Alex|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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About titles over still pictures...

Hi y'all, I have a question.
I created a still frame of a picure that lasts for about 2 minutes so that I could roll some credits over top of it. I have the "Centered Multiple" selection all filled out, and the "Over black" box unchecked. I then proceed to drag the title over the clip (still picture) that I want to use it on, and it just disappears (goes back up to where I started dragging). If I do succeed to do anything, it creates a new title before or after the still clip of the picture, but it's over black. I've read all of the posts, and I can't seem to find an answer . Any help would be great! Then I can finish my movie!
Thanks in advance.

Rob,
When you drag your title to the clip viewer, do not drag it over the picture, but to the left of the picture. The picture will move slightly to the right when this happens. It will then generate what looks like a duplicate of your picture in the clip viewer, but what it is really doing is taking the first few seconds of the picture for your title, and leaving the remaining seconds of the picture for when the title is completed. The two picture clips should add up to the same total time as the original single clip of the picture.
Ray

My iPhone 4s notified me that I had to manage my storage so I deleted apps that used a lot of space I deleted almost all my picture and it still keeps telling me I don't have enough storage is there any other way I can make room on my phone ?

My iPhone 4s notified me that I had to manage my storage so I deleted apps that used a lot of space I deleted almost all my picture and it still keeps telling me I don't have enough storage is there any other way I can make room on my phone ? Were it shows how much storage I have available it still says 9.9 even after all that I have done so I don't know if I need to change my storage plan or what but anything will help I guess

Check for 'others' in iTunes against your iPhone.
Restore from a previous backup to reclaim some of it.
Still want more, Restore in iTunes, setup as New.

Still pictures and titles vibrate on my dvds

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