Interlacing on DVCII?

[ZigZag]

I currently use a Pinnacle PCTV card and obviously get the interlace artifacts when capping at hi-res, the software de-interlace filters rarely do the source justice. What I was wondering is if something like the Dazzle DVCII has the same interlace issues when capping at hi-res MPEG2 or is there any kind of hardware filtering which clears up the problem?

[VidGuy]

There are always interlacing issues if you are capturing NTSC. You either have to deinterlace or use inverse-telecine. Many programs can just be IVTC'd with TMPGEnc or with the various filters that come with/for VirtualDub or Avisynth.

One Caveat: If you create a 480-line MPeg2 (SVCD, usually), and encode it as an SVCD or DVD and watch it on a TV, the interlacing problems go away, because it was captured interlaced and is played interlaced. However, if you play it back on a PC, you will still get some interlacing artifacts, since the PC monitor is not interlaced.

[ZigZag]

Thanks VidGuy.