Problems with DV-AVI

[Guest]

I rendered a vacation video using the DV-AVI option. The video was captured
directly from my DV camera. I then rendered the video out to DVD using ULEAD
Movie Maker 3.5.
The resulting DVD seems to have (what I assume are) numerous dropped frames
while watching it on TV. The video looks choppy/jumpy, but it does not
create sound/video sync issues. I noticed something in one of the other
posts about possible jumpiness for DV-AVI. Is that the highest/smoothest
option for rendering out or should I be using "High Quality Video" or "Video
for Local Playback?"
Could the jumpiness be coming from Movie Maker? BTW, I do not use
moviemaker because it constantly crashes. FWIW, I do not have any other
applications open when rendering, I have a 1GB RAM, Pentium 4.
TIA for suggestions.

 

[Guest]

What is the best format for DVD playback? DV-AVI, NTSC, or one of the
selections for NTSC?

 

[Rehan]

DV AVI is the best option but Movie Maker has a bug in making DV AVi files
that it drops a frame in every clip... If you have made a lot of cuts and/or
have a lot of short clips then this can be prominent. Oherwise it is
unnoticeable most of the times.

You said:
If you do not use it then how can this be caused by it? Doesnt make sense!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the DV information. There is a lot of motion, low-light, etc.
The places where the shots are pretty stationary, I do not have this problem.
Is there a work around for the dropped frame problem, or is it to use NTSC?

Regarding the crashing comment - that is bad typing from me. I meant that I
do not use ULEAD Movie Factory 3.5 because it has crashing issues.
Therefore, I use MM, which I prefer as well. So I AM using Movie Maker !

THANKS.