Progressive Scan - Yay or nay?

[FallenAngelII]

I'm trying to encode my AMV for an AMV (Anime Music Video) contest with the best quality possible coming from Adobe Premiere Pro and I've chosen MPEG-2 DVD.

But then I came upon Progressive Scan. I've read the Wikipedia page about it, but I'm still a bit confused. So which one is better overall`

The AMV will be shown using a computer and then projected onto a movie screen (actual movie threatre). Which choice, progressive or non-progressive, would give the best image quality with the least glitches possible?

[Mr2001]

Is your source video progressive or interlaced?

[edDV]

Is this original work? What is your source?

[blinky88]

If you have an interlace TV set you cannot use progresive scan.

[FallenAngelII]

My source is Naruto vids in DivX :P. I'll assume they're deinterlaced >_>'.

And what's the diff. between deinterlaced and progressive?

[Mr2001]

Progressive means the whole frame represents a single point in time, as opposed to interlaced where half the lines in the frame are from time T and the other half are from 1/60 of a second later.

Deinterlacing is a process you use to convert interlaced video to progressive video. There are different ways to deinterlace, some better than others. The only one that doesn't lose information is inverse telecine, when you're working with interlaced material that was created on film (24 fps) and then converted to 29.97 fps NTSC video.

[edDV]

You get to compete in a contest with divx copies of sombody else's anime ?

divx usually has been deinterlaced. What is your Premmier Pro project format?

You can author either way. Progressive authoring has more chance of disaster. I would try both and show up early for the projection test.

[FallenAngelII]

Yes, I already knew what Interlaced, Deinterlaced, Inverse Telecine and Progressive were. I was just wondering if there's any real fundamental difference between Deinterlaced and Progressive Scan. Apparentely, there isn't.

Of course I can compete in an AMV contest using anime footage I did not create myself. What are you saying, you should only be able to enter AMV-contests is you yourself were the animator?!

I'm using fansub rips as a source since I'm too lazy and cheap to get the Hong Kong copy DVDs (no official ones of Naruto in existence).

[zoobie]

Most contests hinge on the creator's ability...not simply the editor's. There's a contest here, too, but you have to be the author, as usual.

[edDV]

Yes, I already knew what Interlaced, Deinterlaced, Inverse Telecine and Progressive were. I was just wondering if there's any real fundamental difference between Deinterlaced and Progressive Scan. Apparentely, there isn't.

There is a big difference when you put it on a projector.

Stragegy depends on whether the source is progressive or interlaced and whether the projector will take a progressive 50 frame per second feed off a DVD player or just take 25 fps interlace.

Safest path is interlace. Success with progressive takes trial and error. Best to do both and see which looks best on the projector.

[FallenAngelII]

We're not using a DVD-player for the AMVcontest, but a computer. I'm converting it into DVD to get maximum quality.

As for AMV-contests: An AMV editor and an AMV authorer is the same person. You've got your terms confused.

To author and edit an AMV is the same thing. No, there are no contests in existance (almost) where in order to enter, you have to ahve drawn the footage yourself! Those are very rare.

The only thing I've done is use fansubs, meaning: The original episodes with subtitles. There are no rules against this at any contest.

I don't understand what you're trying to say and what kind of a contest you guys are having.

[edDV]

We're not using a DVD-player for the AMVcontest, but a computer. I'm converting it into DVD to get maximum quality.

As for AMV-contests: An AMV editor and an AMV authorer is the same person. You've got your terms confused.

To author and edit an AMV is the same thing. No, there are no contests in existance (almost) where in order to enter, you have to ahve drawn the footage yourself! Those are very rare.

The only thing I've done is use fansubs, meaning: The original episodes with subtitles. There are no rules against this at any contest.

I don't understand what you're trying to say and what kind of a contest you guys are having.

What format are the original fansubs? What are your Premiere Pro project settings?

How does "converting it into DVD" get maximum quality? If you have an interlace or a progressive file from your animation in Premiere why convert it to DVD MPeg2? Why not play it directly without temporal compression?

The only reason to convert it to DVD is to make it playable on a DVD player.