Hey,

Nice new site.  Just found the email that this place moved yesterday, so here I am.  LOL!  Anyway, about my problem.  I posted in the Newbie section at DVDRhelp and have only gotten lip-service and limited help.  I have done everything I can think of.  I will spare you the entire to-do, and will cut, more or less, to what\'s happening now.

I am trying to move VHS tape to DVD.  I am getting evenly-spaced horizontal lines during moving while watching the DVD on TV.  I never get these lines while inside the computer watching on Windows Media Player.  It is just a blurryness of the video evenly spaced every inch or so from bottom to top while there is movement on screen.  As I said, it is only visible when watching on TV from a standalone player.

My process is VHS, recorded into my Sony miniDV, then firewire capture in Premiere, then editing in Premiere, output AVI, open in TMPGenc Plus!, compress video, then author in TMPGenc DVD Author.  I throw the audio into AC3 for via Virtua dub.

I have done every setting I can think of in TMPGenc and nothing fixes this problem.  EVERY setting.  I kid you not.  

The main thing is I am capturing at 720x480 in Premiere.  For my tests, I do some light editing then export.  I open the ES stream in TMPG and it says the file is now 720x486.  I can then mess with the settings, but if I hit START, it gives me an error saying 720x486 is non-standard or some-such, so I move the slider down to 720x480 and hit START and it works.   THEN each and every time I get those lines on my TV from both of my DVD players.  

I am thinking now, since I have completely changed the hardware, done every setting in TMPG, and captured differently, that the ONLY constant I have is editing in Premiere.  Why does it send out a 720x486 file?  Is that the cause maybe?

If someone has Premiere, can you capture a bit of footage at 720x480, play with it a little, then File-Export and open THAT file in TMPG and see if it\'s still 720x480 or the 720x486 I am experiencing.  I am going home tonight to take Premiere TOTALLY out of the equation.  I think I can capture AVI in Virtual Dub, but we\'ll see.  

Hopefully someone will have an answer, or my experiments tonight will shed some light.  

Sorry for the long post, but this problem is really holding me back.  I\'ve blown through about $40 worth of DVDR\'s running these tests.  As I said, it\'s only after I get the DVDR burned and play it on my standalones that it shows up.  That\'s why I was assuming it was a setting in TMPG.  

Any advice, comments, Kleenex for my crying, and cheese for my whine is welcome and appreciated.   :?   It\'s been 3 weeks, and I am WAY behind schedule on what I wanted to do.

Augster