progressive to interlaced

[cd090580]

Hi,

I have 2 SVCD music videos that I'd like to convert to DVD.

I have a question, the SVCD were encoded as progressive and I want to convert them to DVD in interlaced so I can add them with other videos (already in interlaced TFF).

With TmpgEnc, do I simply set the source as progressive 4:3 and the encoder setting to interlaced TFF ?

[dipstick]

No need to. DVD supports both Interlaced and Progressive Mpeg-2.

Unless you are trying to merge them into one Mpeg-2 file, then your settings should work fine.

[cd090580]

I need to convert SVCD to DVD from progressive to interlaced because I want to merge all my videos into one VTS

[dipstick]

If you keep them as seperate tittles, you can have some interlaced and some progressive. You only need another VTS if you have both 4:3 and 16:9 Aspect Ratios. Your DVD player will auto interlace the output to the TV.

[manono]

dipstick is correct. As long as the DAR and the framerate is the same (25fps for PAL and 29.97fps for NTSC, either pulled down 23.976->29.97 or native 29.97fps), there will be no problem at all. They can even be all the same title.

[mikiem]

It's not legal, but some folks have had success just using SVCD files as is -- search on it and you'll find some info and guides. Success varies, but if it works for you...

If that interests, there's a couple of links to SVCD stuff as well as good info here: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/officialfaq.html and can't hurt to check out the SVCD stuff here at videohelp.com