NTSC 29.97 non-interlaced

[Cunhambebe]

I have a targa sequence here, previoulsy rendered with Lightwave (progressive) at 29.97. I'd like to endode the sequence to MPEG2 intended for DVD. Is that possible to render to MPEG2 non-interlaced? Is a file like this compatible with regular NTSC tvs?
Thanks in advance.

[dipstick]

Yes and yes.

The DVD player will automatically telecine it for an interlaced TV.

[ntscuser]

It depends on the original source. If it was a movie or a TV show shot at 24fps you will get severe motion artefacts when replayed on a conventional 60hz NTSC television monitor.

Essentially a 24fps source has to be "inverse telecine" processed rather than simply "de-interlaced".

Even if the original source was 30fps interlaced (actually 60Hz) you will still get "jaggies" and other udesirable artefacts.

[edDV]

I have a targa sequence here, previoulsy rendered with Lightwave (progressive) at 29.97. I'd like to endode the sequence to MPEG2 intended for DVD. Is that possible to render to MPEG2 non-interlaced? Is a file like this compatible with regular NTSC tvs?
Thanks in advance.

What is the origial file format? If "avi" what is the codec?

If it's a MPeg2 graphics animation file rendered 29.97. Load it into your authoring software and see if it likes it. It will want to convert it to 59.94 fields per second interlaced but may offer the option to encode opposite fields as progressive (for future progressive reconstruction by the DVD player). Don't let it force an inverse telecine. That will destroy the smoothness of the playback. This file is full 29.97fps.

Burn a test DVD. Any DVD player should know how to play a 29.97 fps progressive source stored as interlace fields to interlace 480i. A more advanced progressive DVD player may know how to play it 480p to a progressive TV.

[Cunhambebe]

My TV is not progressive. Original Targa sequence is uncompressed Targa 32.
Thanks in advance

[edDV]

There are ways to sequence TGA files into TMPGEnc but I've never done it.