Greetings,

I have read around a bit about Progressive and Interlaced video, and how 3:2 Pulldown works.

I got a sample AVI ( the mountain panoramic intro in Lord of the Rings: Two Towers ), which is a 720x480 progressive AVI.
The sample has 1680 frames, and plays at 23,976 fps.

I open TMPGEnc Xpress and select the source AVI, with Display Mode: Progressive, Aspect Ratio: Pixel 40:33 (NTSC 16:9), and Framerate: 23.976.
Then I select the Output format to be Standard DVD, and now I have to choose the output mode:

- If I select 3:2 Pulldown Playback, when I author it in TMPGEnc DVD Author, I can see the interlaced scan lines on mostly ever camera movement, both on PC and on television. Mpeg file is 1680 frames.
- If I select Progressive, and then author it accordingly, the image is obviously not scanned, but I can see the small "drags", corresponding to the repeated frames added by the 23,976->29,97 conversion, both on PC and television. Mpeg file is 2100 frames.

What am I doing wrong? Are these the only two options? I think I'll opt for the full progressive method, since it just makes those drags noticeable when there's a big wide pan, like in the mountain intro; in quick action, or steady scenes, there's not any glitch.

I think CCE used to do the 3:2 Pulldown, but I never noticed any scan lines. So, I must be doing something wrong in TMPGEnc.

Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!