I've been a CS2 user pretty much since it came out and never had this issue before -
I have several short clips in a sequence with pans (not an effect, straight video). I started noticing that the preview display of those clips was jerky (like a sticky tripod head might cause). The original video is totally smooth. I blew it off thinking it would render fine. Wrong. Export to DVD or export to an AVI file retains the horrible movement.

After much investigation (and some luck) I determined that if I render right after a re-boot everything is fine.

Other system behavior that may or may not have anything to do with this are:

1) When I play a DV-AVI file with Windows Media Player I have to click in the play area to get the video to appear (the audio starts right away).

2) When I play an un-compressed AVI file with Windows Media Player I get a codec error and only the audio will play.

Thoughts?

Larry,

Maybe your PC has been bogged down and you are lagging?

Larry,

Maybe your PC has been bogged down and you are lagging?

It's a dual 3.2Ghz machine with 2.5Gb of RAM. I watch the CPU and memory utilization, seems normal. Anyway, even with a "slow machine" a render might take a long time but I don't see how that would cause the resulting DVD to exhibit the results I'm seeing.