Newbie needs help !!!

[Butcher]

I am trying to make my first SVCD, I am using Audio Galaxy, I see from other posts that this is not the best proggie but it will do until I get more experience.
In the walk through guide it says that when TMPGEnc is loaded to set the "field order" under advanced to "odd". The problem is that the two choices I am given are "top field" or "bottom field" which do I use or have I gone wrong elsewhere???
thanx in advance

[pinoy2201]

you know the VCD Galaxy is just a GUI for the separte programs

[Butcher]

thanx for the reply m8,
yes I do know that its a GUI, but the guide from galaxy isn't very clear on the settings when TMPGEnc is loaded thats all, should I set top or bottom field or just leave the default setting which is top.

[pinoy2201]

just keep it has the defualt it gives me great qaultiy

[Shabubu]

First of all is your source interlaced ?? (DVD2AVI will tell you this, press f5 and look at the stats that pop up). If it's not you don't need to do anything to field order. Otherwise I'm pretty sure that the bottom field is the odd one.

[stanwebber]

field-order is absolutely critical when dealing with interlaced sources. it is the most common pitfall that befalls anyone just breaking into svcd(still impacts vcd if ivtc). read the guides on this site to find out how to determine field order(no guide would be complete without careful attention to the subject). top-field first in both tmpgenc & cce is odd-first, but may not be in other encoders as top,upper,odd terminologies are completely misused anyway

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