audio and video skips with still images

[roscox7out]

Well, I've looked up and down the forum to try and solve this problem...so it looks like I'm going to have to ask for help. I'm fairly new to dvd's but here goes. I'm making movies from a digital video camera and editing them through vegas 4.0, where of course I add tons of filters and music...and whatever the movie calls for. My next step is to render it down to avi which always comes out great. I used DVD Santa as suggested here to rip down the files needed for a dvd. In this particular case...I made a movie with 30 minutes of video footage and then a slide show at the end. when I watch the video on power dvd from the .vob files...it seems to run smooth...after I burn it on to a dvd, the video part runs smooth but as soon as it hits the slide show with the still images...it seems to studder after nearly every picture. Do dvd's not like still images? I'm using nero to burn my dvd's and I'm burning at the two lowest speeds possible...2.4X and 4.0X. My dvd rw is a new _NEC DVD _RW ND-2510A.

I have also had earlier headaches making movies where I added either a still image in the middle of video or a text screen that after being rendered to .vob files seemed to skip and studder. Any suggestions on what may be causing this...or perhaps I just have a setting wrong. Thanks for the time!

Andy

[killingspree]

who recommended dvdsanta?? :confused:

[roscox7out]

I don't think "doom 9" recommended DVD Santa, but it was recommended on this forum. I was turned on to this forum months ago and I got a lot of my information here. I just went scrolling through the threads but I couldn't find the right one to reference you back to. It was during a time when I was trying to find the right program to extract avi's to vob's.

[killingspree]

i went through all threads in this forum and honestly, the only guy that ever recommended dvdsanta, was it's author dvdsanta, who was pushing his program until he got suspended from the forum...

i just hope you didn't spend any money on it!

steVe

edit: oops forgot, honestly i do not know how dvdsanta is doing the conversion from avi to mpeg2 - but i'd recommend you take a look at the dvd encoding guides at doom9.org and see if you can do this step with either TmpegEnc or CCE - you should end up with a better quality video. now i can't say that dvdsanta does produce non 100% compliant dvd streams, but i sure can imagine it!

[roscox7out]

dvd Santa was actually doing the conversion from avi straight to .vob, .iso, and .bup files...however...I did not realize that this was not a program that you supported...so I feel a little silly. I think I was hoping that there was one program out there that would render down all the necessary files for a dvd in one program...it looks like to do it well there are many steps to be taken...so I'm going to go back to the drawing board and download all the programs through here. thanks for the speedy reply!

[oddyseus]

u must have misunderstood us. As we feel it, any developer is welcome to inform the members of this board about its program and the uses of it, as long as it contributes to the community by offering more than the links to its sales page.

dvdsanta was only promoting its program and rarely, if not at all, offered anything else, like an answer or a suggestion to one's questions.

He was warned more than once before he was banned from this board.

As steve said, there r programs that offer superior quality than dvdsanta.