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Video is shimmering! Is this from DV codec?

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I just got done with 3 weeks of work editing a project, and when I was looking at the finished DVD on my T.V., the video seems to "shimmer". Is this from the DV codec I used to keep the file size down for editing?

I'm taking the master video from a series of DVDs by using DVD Decrypter, then I use a program "VobEdit" to demux the vob files. Next I take the video files that have been Demuxed with VobEdit, and use a program called VirtualDub to turn the demuxed video into a format I can edit in "Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5".

What compression should I tell VirtualDub to use? So far, I have been selecting "MainConcept DV 2.4.16" is this where my "SHIMMERING" problem is coming from?

FF

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Hi Fanfiltration!

I may not be the most qualified to answer this since I don't work in DV video formats/codecs specifically, but from what I've read and seen it's best to do editing with a lossless codec. I use HuffYUV, and Adywan on this forum uses Lagarith to give some examples. These are the most popular for editing I think, but there are others out there too. If you have these codecs on your machine I see no reason why you couldn't edit files done with them in Adobe Premiere. But they will make your files pretty big -- the old trade off, file size versus quality retained.

I know nothing about "MainCon DV 2.4.16" so I don't know if that's the cause of your shimmering woes or not.

Hope this is of some help!

- WXM

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If you can upgrade your version of Premiere to CS3, that version natively handles MPEG files.

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"Shimmering" sounds to me like a field order problem.

I agree with the above about avoiding the DV codec; either work directly on the MPEG-2 video or convert to a lossless format.

Out of interest, are you using a newer version of VitualDub with an MPEG-2 plugin, or VirtualDubMod/VirtualDub-MPEG2?

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Thanks for your help guys!

I'll try the codecs, and not use the DV anymore.

I'm using VirtualDub-MPEG2...

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Out of interest, are you using a newer version of VitualDub with an MPEG-2 plugin, or VirtualDubMod/VirtualDub-MPEG2?
Sorry to slip myself into this thread some more, but why do you ask, Moth3r? Is the former better or worse than the latter?

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The newest versions of VirtualDub can load plugins so they can open unsupported files. There's a plugin for MPEG-2 video here:
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/Plugins/MPEG2/index.html

I'm still using VirtualDub-MPEG2, but with the new plugin fetaure for VirtualDub these spin-off projects will eventually become outdated.

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Cool!

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