Interlaced DVD

[elmemo]

Ok, i know there are a lot of topics with this subject,
but i'm still confused, i've captured a vhs video,
so i have an interlaced mpeg2.
Now, everybody says that if you're gonna watch it with a TV,
you shouldn't deinterlace it,
what i wanna do, is burn it to a dvd, and play it on a projection TV,
but if i don't deinterlace, it looks really bad, it looks... interlaced!
What am i missing? please help.

[Cornucopia]

How are you capturing? Or encoding?

Sounds like your cap device might be incorrectly de-interlacing for you. In that case, you're stuck with crappy video.

Projection TV is still standard def interlaced video.

Give us some more info...

Scott

[elmemo]

Here is the info,

i'm capturing with Ulead DVD Workshop v1.2,
which encodes directly to mpeg2,
the capture card is an ATI TV WONDER VE PCI,
with the WDM Universal driver for capture cards.
burning with nero 6, dvd video template.

Thanks.

[elmemo]

Come on!, this is a newbie question, somebody has to know, help.

[Cornucopia]

#1 IIWY, I'd NEVER capture directly to MPEG2, unless I had an EXTREMELY tight deadline. Doesn't that card allow you to capture to some other codec. DV? MJPEG? HuffYUV?

#2 Check your template that you're using in DVD Workshop. Maybe it's already set to de-interlace (with possibly the WRONG settings).

#3 You still didn't give us much info. What's your source? What is the encoder being utilized in DVD Workshop? (I'm assuming Mainconcept there.) What are ALL the steps you went through. What Burning template settings did you use in Nero. What's your player model? etc...

Scott

[elmemo]

Thanks for your posts Cornucopia,
i'll try to capture to another format first,
but going back to my main question,
if i'm going to burn to dvdr and watch it with projection TV,
Does the video must be interlaced?
And what if the video is Progressive Scan divx?
Should i interlace it?

Thanks

[bugster]

If the source material is interlaced, and the destination format supports interlacing, leave it interlaced. Believe me (and others) when I say de-interlacing will look worse than an interlaced video.

If the source is divx, it is probably progressive (though I have discovered just recently that divx5.1 does support interlaced material). If it is progressive, encode it progressive. If your DVD player does progressive scan and you have a progressive display, it will look great. If your DVD players does not no progressive scan, it will generate an interlaced image for you.