Hi guys

I'm cutting promo on FCP and I've used the freeze frame option to hold a couple of shots for two seconds before fading.

The problem I'm having, is when I burn the promo to DVDR the freeze frames flicker.

I've burnt the DVDR's with both toast and iDVD and am getting the same result and yet the QT file I'm burning looks fine.

Anyone else come up against this problem? and, if so what solutions did you find?

You need to deinterlace the still. Sometimes I've even exported the still as a jpeg and then dropped the jpeg into the time line.

You should always grab a freeze frame by previewing to a broadcast monitor. You will get the cleanest sharpest picture that way becasue you can actually go frame to frame and see which one stays steady. You won't have to de-intelace this way. Previewing on a computer monitor will not show you a flickering frame because it is a progressive picture. It flickers because it is and intelaced picture between two fields thus the reason that de-intelacing works your favoring one field over the other.

fab. I knew you guys would have the anwer:)