Should I de-interlace all captured video?

[vulcan4d]

I captured a lot of video off a camcorder and now I'm authoring a DVD with all the footage. The question is though should I de-interlace all the video? I would think yes because the DVD will be played on progressive TV's aswell as regular TV's. However I wonder because progressive TV's have no problem running regular cable and that's interlaced, so I guess these type of TV's de-interlace on the fly. Therefore do I even have to de-interlace the video I have?

[thecoalman]

No, only deinterlace if your going to view exclusively on a computer. Even then you may be better off using a progam such as PowerDVD which does a great job job deinterlacing on the fly.

Deinterlacing will produce inferior results for TV playback. First off your video is going to look choppy during high motion scenes, second deinterlacing throws away detail, there's different methods but all result in some quality loss.

[jimmalenko]

If your source is interlaced, leave it interlaced.


http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/capture/understandsource.htm#interlace

[jtoolman2000]

Gee, as many times as this gets asked, maybe it should be a sticky.