MJPEG to DV Q

[JonH]

Hello,
Appreciate all of the useful advice thus far on this forum. I'm trying to take some mjpeg files I made when I had my G400TV card and convert them to mpeg2 for DVD. I bought Picvideo to read the MJPEGs. I'm getting a thin flashing line off and on at the top of the mpeg video files on playback. I'm setting the field order to A and I am not deinterlacing -- should I be? Also, is Picvideo the way to go here? Any advice at this stage on converting the mjpegs and making a DVD would be appreciated.
One more thing. If I want to send mjpeg files to a VHS tape, can I just convert them to DV files? My Canopus converter will only allow ditial input into the VCR.
Jon

[Ted222]

Use PICVideo to capture the files....dunno what you mean by "read" the files.

To capture to VHS - just play the files and capture the output to your VCR.

Use your Video Editing program to convert to Mpeg2, or maybe your DVD authoring program.

good luck,

Ted

[Brian Ellis]

The "thin flashing line" can be ignored. It will be in the overscan area and not visible on a TV.

When importing your MJPEG files into the timeline, set the project settings to your Picvideo codec, field order B at 704 x 576 or 480. To convert them to DV, I would suggest you Create a file, choosing the options for DV, including Field Order A. It will take its time to re-render. However, DV is 720 x n, not 704 x n. I'm not sure whether MSP will add overscan black bars on either side or distort the aspect ratio. If the latter, you may have to add the black bars yourself.

[JonH]

Thanks guys. I figured out that there is no reason to convert to DV (I can run any file from time line after a render - which Brian already told me the other day). So I just want to convert to MPEG for DVD burning. Tried putting the standard setting to MJPEG with Picvideo and the results weren't as good. Of course this assumes I did everything correctly which may not be the case.
Jon