I posted this on a different board here and someone recommended that I post it here instead...so here it is...

Ok, I'm new to all this; the most I've ever used as far as software is concerned is Windows Movie Maker, and I'm sorry to say that the results were much better than they have been with Ulead.


I keep getting these horrible jelly-like lines all through my videos, and I have no idea why. The source file is in MPEG format and has no quality issues whatsoever when played on it's own, but as soon as I import it into Ulead and apply effects (in this case a fade-in and a fade-out), these lines appear. How can I get rid of them?

Also, I'd like some information on video-encoding using Ulead. I will want my videos to be YouTube friendly, so a small file-size with a nice quality to them. What file-format/settings should I use to encode my videos using Ulead?

Thanks in advance -

Your video needs to be deinterlaced for WEB viewing on a PC monitor.

The Bad News is that you cannot (as far as I know) deinterlace from within ULead Videostudio 8

What I do is use Videostudio 8 to encode to full screen DV AVI and then use Windows Media Encoder to deinterlace and encode to WMV format for posting on the WEB.

Windows Media Encoder is Free and availbale from Windows Media Encoder.

Post back if you need some tips on Windows Media Encoder

Enjoy.

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That's a fantastic help, thank you. If I stumble across any more issues I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks again.