Processing video: Interlacing and deinterlacing

[rorschach]

I've noticed whenever I capture video and, say, without porting it via FCX, and dropping straight into DVDSP for example, interlacing lines appear during moments of fast motion on the video. For the video to properly playback smooth, it must first be passed to an editing program that will apply the appropriate "field order" to the video to avoid this interlacing.

I've just extracted a movie from a Panasonic DVD Recorder recording using DVDxDV and it looks good. I dropped it into Compressor for processing with the aim of entry to DVDSP. But playback of the m2v reveals the interlacing lines during fast motion.

Is there a way of avoiding interlacing lines without first porting into editing programs? Often the vids can be very long running time and hence deep encoding.

I attempted to take the m2v into DiVA but the small chunk that was encoded degraded the video. Not good. I LIKE the concept of a program like DiVA that is designed with a deinterlace specialty.

Right now I'm experimenting with Quicktime Pro taking the extraction and using the MPEG2 Exporter in a two-pass export with Field Order not set to Auto but Top field. Looks like a 6 hour encode. Will this do what I want?

Thanks.

[rorschach]

Looking at the Presets inside Compressor, I understand I can control the Field Order to be Automatic, Top or Bottom. I also see where I can choose Deinterlacing (odd/even).

To avoid the problem that I'm describing in this thread, I want to SET the Field Order to be TOP, correct? This setting will avoid the creation OF interlacing lines that I see. It's LATER that when we see the interlacing lines that I would want the encoding to DEinterlace (remove) the lines.

[AntnyMD]

I havent used Compressor much but when I did it seems to be bent on interlacing NTSC content. It assumes your final presentation of the content is television, which handles interlaced material.

As for DiVA, when I use it as an intermediate step, I set it for best quality so that it will just use all the bitrate it wants to maintain the quality. Although it uses a lot of disc space this way, its still significantly smaller than a conversion to DV. I use the 3ivx codec ... Its awesome.