Capturing Question bit rate and on deinterlace or interlace

[HaloMontages]

When I capture my stuff in MPEG2 I end up with lines in it (I assume because when I capture something I don't have deinterlace on). But my other question is. I have a choice on what bit rate to captuer my video at whether it is a target or max. And I was just wondering what bit rate I should set it at? The preset is at like 6 mbps, but is there any reason why I wouldn't want both of those categories set at the max of 15 mbps? Like is it hard on the computer to capture it that fast (i.e. lots of dropped frames)?

One other question, I currently have a lot of footage that is interlaced, but there are of course those lines in it that I'd like to fix. So is there a way to take a video that already has the lines and then get rid of the lines?

Thanks for the help

I have a

Dell Dimension 8200
P4 1.7ghz
256 MB RDRAM

[reboot]

If you can capture that fast, go ahead.
If you're going to author those captures to dvd, they'll have to be re-encoded to less than 9000kbps max (dvd spec) or the player may not work. Better to capture at about 8500 max, if you want to go straight to DVD.
You can deinterlace. Do a search for it on here, there's quite a few tools for doing it.

[HaloMontages]

Well would my computer be able to handle it do you think? I guess what I'm saying is would it really make that big of difference? I don't think my computer could handle it lol, I have too much laking ram. I'll just set it at like 8 mbps or something like that.

Looking for tools now*

[HaloMontages]

Heh, I looked in the tools section but didn't find anything. I might just from now on deinterlace everything I capture so as to not have that problem anymore. But if you could send me a link that'd be cool. I just looked around but heh, no luck.

[Abond]

If you keep your stuff in mpeg2 you don't need to deinterlace.
Mpeg2 support interlaced video and DVD player will deinterlace on the fly.

[reboot]

I should have been clearer, sorry.
Deinterlace would be used for capturing to avi, not mpeg-2.

[HaloMontages]

I should have been more clear. My vids are going to only be viewed on a computer. So I am currently just capturing everything deinterlaced. So my question is how to make a video that I captured interlaced become deinterlaced. How do you do that?

[reboot]

Run it through virtualdub with the deinterlace filter.
Your other option, is to capture into an application that allows prefiltering. I think VirtualVCR and virtualdub will do this too.
I'm sure there are other ways too.

[pfh]

Would inverse telecine suit your purposes better?

[HaloMontages]

I looked in the filters section but I don't see deinterlace in there. Is that something I'd have to dl somewhere?

I am currently (while capturing to MPEG 2) capturing my stuff deinterlaced, so assumably that will fix the problem or do I also need to run it through the filter?

[reboot]

In virtualdub, video, filters, add, it's the 7th one down (in mine).
If you're capping deinterlaced, why would you deinterlace with a filter?