Ghosting or jerky pans

[justin t]

Just trialing Edius and I am testing a short clip shot on a dslr (nikon d7000). reason for testing Edius is I could never get panning shots looking right when it was exported to DVD through PP. I am now having similar issues with Edius so I must be doing something wrong. Orig footage is shot 24p 1920x1080 we attach it to a 1 meter slider and shot slow, medium and faster sliding detail shots. Fast slides look worse but even slow slides are not good. Exported to avi looks great no issues even after being resized to 720x576.

The problem occurs when exporting to DVD. I am using a sd50i setting as progressive settings wouldn't burn to DVD and feel like I have tried every combo. With frame blending on (which seems to be on automatically) it just doesn't look good and gives a ghosting effect to the details when sliding past. With frame blending turned off Alt E then changed to nearest frame it doesn't ghost but now its not smooth and sort of stutters. I have been reading as much as I can as im a pro still photographer and only learning video (know only basics) and have came across comment about dslrs at 24fps not good for pans or sliding shots. I have no option to shot at higher frame rates with these cameras. Is there any way you can make it look good on DVD with out these ghost or jerky looks?

[Rusty]

24p will always look terrible on DVD.
If you can shoot 25p in PAL land, your problems should disappear.

Anton?

[antonsvideo]

the only way to get a smooth movement on PAL DVD is to shoot 50i or 50p

with 24p, you can enable pulldown which will then create 60i (all Hollywood DVD originate from 24p and end up 60i or 50i)

NTSC DVD will play fine in Australia on any player

[justin t]

the only way to get a smooth movement on PAL DVD is to shoot 50i or 50p

with 24p, you can enable pulldown which will then create 60i (all Hollywood DVD originate from 24p and end up 60i or 50i)

NTSC DVD will play fine in Australia on any player

Thanks Anton. I'm in Australia and happy to create pal or NTSC DVD if I'm working with this 24p file how do I "enable pulldown" etc. Can you walk me though this if it's easy. It seems so finicky if you don't know what you are doing (that's me) I struggle with the correct settings but if this way can get me smooth pans it will be a life saver as I have spent so much time fyling blind trying to work this out.

[justin t]

Have been trying to come up with a set of settings that work but cant manage this.

I cant get the enable pulldown box to be selectable and still have an interlaced project. When the settings are selectable it is always a progressive project and then I cant burn a DVD because it is progressive.

Trying to find a way to have smooth pans at 24p burnt to DVD and I cant do it. If our cameras shot at 50p I would do this but they dont so trying a work around. Any help would be very much appreciated!