Progressive DV to SVCD

[Harpreet]

My dv camcorder has the option to shoot in progressive mode. I sometimes use this mode for video as it gives me non-interlaced steady digital images for printing. However, progressive video played as-is from the camcorder appears jerky on TV.

If I want to make SVCD's out of these, what software-settings should I use? I am currently using Premiere 6 for capturing/downloading and editing, and then TMPGenc for creating the mpeg2. I might try to frameserv with avisynth in future. I'm a newbie to this stuff, so detailed explainations will be appreciated.
Thanks.

[Harpreet]

Almost 24 hours and no responses!

This is the way I think of the issue. A progressive video is like the single frame in the 24 frame shots in a movie (which have no interlacing). Thus I will have to use similar options as converting a non-interlaced anime. Any comments on this? Would this be similar to the conversion of anime to s/vcd?

Can anyone direct me to a site that might have some detailed information on progressive and interlaced videos?

Thanks.

[Schmuck Optiks]

Hey
The difference between progressive and interlaced is as follows.
When you are talking about progressive the whole image is drawn on the screen at once. Most of the DVDs that I have seen are stored as progressive images. Now if you are going to create SVCDs, which I have created about 10 full length movies, you have to set the progressive in the video. I also use B field order (which I think does not matter, because that applies to interlaced mode). All the videos play just fine without any jerkiness.
One thing you might want to consider is that you want the frame rate to be 23.97 instead of 29.97, that would give you better quality (because you are spreading the specified bitrate over 23 instead of 29.97 pictures), so each frame gets more data and I found that this decreases the jerkiness as well.
I usually frameserves with DVD2AVI. I have not tried played with my premiere 6 as of now, but from my experience with 5.1 you can just place the avi file (that you outputted from premiere) directly into TMPEG. Let me know how it goes