blinking interlaced Stills

Ok, first of all, i DID try to find the answer but I couldn´t. I searched the Authoring, Advanced Authoring and Encoding categories but couldn´t find a specific solution, so if this is a repeated thread please apollogize me.

My problem is this:
I`m authoring DVD`s from video (Interlaced) and I have a problem with the text on my stills (Specially the little and shinny ones), they blink on a TV.

I know that this is because of the interlacing but I need to find a way to avoid this blinking as much as possible.

I don´t know if it is a good idea to de-interlace my video and use progressive or even if this is actually going to work (I actually think that my menus are progressive but i`m not shure maybe they get interlaced someway in the encoding process) .

Please if anyone could give me a hint I will apretiate it.

The other thing I could try is opening the image in premiere, with the optmise still option and then export it again but, again I don`t know if this will solve the issue.

I'm not sure what you are talking about. All video (except HDTV progressive) is interlaced when displayed. Do you mean that your video is a TELECINE product?

Why don't you tell us what your source is (other than quot;video) and maybe we can gleen your meaning from that.

OK Here`s the thing the original footage comes from a VHS videotape but I use a Canopus ADVC 100 to quot;convertquot; it to DV video and then through a Pinnacle DV7 firewire into my Computer; but the quot;blinking partsquot; are stills created in Photoshop to be used as still backrounds on a menu.

I`know that it`s not a problem of my video footage nor is it actually a DVD problem (I just didn`t find an apropiate cathegory).The only responsible for this blinkin is the TV where this is played (not a specific one but all of them) and this is caused because of the interlacing. Specifically it affects small and bright text that is exactly what my menu contains.

The thing is I need to avoid this blinking text efect. I tryed to lower the brightness and contrast and it improved a bit but it still blinks, so I want to know what else can I do.
If you still don´t know what this blinking is you can see it for yourself by building a menu with small pure blue caracters, with a small white or yellow quot;outer glowquot; all of them. Or maybe something thin and high contrasted

Thanks.

what you can try is to open the still in photoshop and deinterlace (duplicate either field), which reduces the quality a little, but will stop it 'shimmering'

on the other hand, the way you are doing it now will look very nice on a proper progressive tv/monitor

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Ok I could do that (Deinterlace it in Photoshop) if the image was originally taken from the video and in that case it would be interlaced (or actualy it would have only half of it`s lines) but the thing is my menu is made from the start in photoshop using simple photographic scanned material, that has never been interlaced.
This means that aplying that filter to my backgrounds will not have any effect cause the image is already deinterlaced from the start.

NOTE: It looks quite better if I enlarge the font size but still can`t solve it all and I need to use small font size.