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Hello all, I know this is very far afield of the usual looping discussion here but I also know this is one of the most well informed and diversely talented group of people I know online so I'm asking this OT question of you all. If you know nothing about digital video or could care less about it you might want to delete this now. But for those of you who are willing... Off list responses are probably best. I’m trying to create some short movies that are primarily created in After Effects from a collection of jpgs. These are all high resolution images taken from RAW files. I’m not really doing anything too complicated, just basic dissolves and maybe a little movement. The movies are about 20 minutes long and they render out at about 35 Gb each when uncompressed and these look just fine when played on my computer. Also, I can compress them in the rendering stage to about 1 Gb and they still look fine on computer playback. However, when I try to create a DVD using these files (uncompressed or previously compressed), they become unwatchable and filled with artifacts and moiré like patterns that really ruin much of the work. I’ve tried using Adobe Encore and Nero to encode DVDs and both of them produced the same result. I’m really at a loss here since I have been making short videos with this method for a little while and never encountered this problem before. The only differences I can identify is that the source files for the earlier error free videos were all tif files while these are jpgs taken from RAW files. One last possibility, the images are mainly of wood and so have lots of recurring pattern lines in them. If any of you have any expertise you’d be willing to share or have any suggestions of where to get an answer for this sort of problem, I would be deeply grateful (I'm putting off diving into the Adobe forums because I feel that my use of these programs is far below the type of user questions that seem to populate there). I admit to having gone straight into working in digital video without grounding in what might be the basics so I encounter problems like this more often than I’d like. Not so very different from how I’ve approached looping technology either I suppose. So, sorry if this is an obviously lame question, but I am at a loss (yet again). Thanks again Kevin -- Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble. - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) Sound and Vision: http://www.minds-eye.org