DVD edge flickers

[Fran Guidry]

I'm burning a DVD from Workgroup 8 (8.53.3262). The base project is 720p, after editing I switch to a DVD compatible project:

Video
Frame Size : 720 x 480
Frame Rate : 29.97
Aspect Ratio : 1.2000
Field order : Lower Field
Video Channels : YCbCr + Alpha
Quantization Bit Rate : 8Bit
Stereoscopic Editing : Disable
Audio
Sampling Rate : 48000Hz
Quantization Bit Rate : 24 Bit
Channel : 2
Setup
Render format
Grass Valley HQ Standard
Over Scan Size : 0 %
Audio Reference Level : -20.0dB
Resampling method
Lanczos 3 (Hi-Quality)

Then I File | Export | Burn to disc

The resultant DVDs show small side edges that flicker with some related/reflected content.

I changed some settings in my Blu-ray player and got rid of the flicker (and really wish I had been more methodical in my adjustment process) but I would like to avoid having to tell all the recipients of the project that they need to tweak their players.

Any ideas for a solution that would avoid this need? I've burned several projects using this workflow over the past few years, but I'm strictly amateur and these projects only pop up a couple of times a year.

Thanks,
Fran

[Fred Dwyer]

Change your field order to upper field.

For reference see Anton's Tips and Tricks: https://www.videoproductions.com.au/...downscale.html

[Fran Guidry]

Thanks, Fred. I'll make the change.

But it appears that the problem may be related to another issue - operator error with a second camera track.

Fran

[Ron Evans]

I do not believe that EDIUS can downscale without those sidebars. In most cases they are just black but I choose to downscale and encode in the full version of TMPGenc external to EDIUS for that reason. There you can choose to scale without the margins but still with correct aspect ratio ( it just crops in a little and you loose a little top and bottom).

[Fran Guidry]

Ron, thanks. I really don't mind a little crop on the sides but I am mixing two cameras and the second cam was not covering the edges of the first cam. When someone convinced me of that it was easy to scale the second cam a few percent and the problem is gone.

Fred, and Anton of course, I followed that procedure after correcting my coverage issue and the result is very nice indeed. Thanks.

Fran