How to keep DV material intact interlace wise

[jevries1]

I did my best but to convert DV material to VCD or SVCD doesn't give me good results.
I have a DV shot skateboardmovie (lots of movement) and it seems that there's no way to convert it and keep the interlace intact. It's always converted in a progressive or de-interlaced way.
This looks shitty especialy with High speed shutter footage, you know jerky, jitterish playback.
Is there any way to overcome this problem?
And gives converting to DVD the same problem?
Thanks.

[BJ_M]

how are you converting it ? DV is always bottom up field order ..

[snowmoon]

Sounds like you have set the field dominence ( sometimes called field order ) wrong. Go back into your encoder and find field order or top filed first and switch it for the other option and re-encode.

Note: this is not the same problem as swaped fields... that's something different.

Cheers.

[jevries1]

Nope this is not my problem.
For instance if I render my DV movie in Premiere without the de-interlace option everything looks smooth as it should be because it uses both fields...
When I convert the movie with the de-interlace option ON it will remove one field which gives me a jerky (less smooth) looking video because it misses the one layer to keep things smooth. (especialy noticable with high speed shutter footage)
The same happens with (S)VCD encoders although I didn't use any of the de-interlace options. It looks like there's no way to convert the movie without it being processed in a progressive scan way.
Converting (DVD) movies works fine because of the nature of film and the way the film comes from a DVD.
I hope you know what I mean, because on computers you can't see the difference only on TV.
Thanks.

[snowmoon]

SVCD and DVD both fully support interlacing. If ti works with DVD then it should work with SVCD and you are probably setting something wrong along the way.

I have done dozens of interlaced SVCD's without a hitch. Both TMPGenc and CCE both can do interlced encodes.

So i'm not quite sure what your doing wrong.

[jevries1]

Your right, I did some testruns and finaly got it right it's the VCD that doesn't support interlaced DV footage. The SVCD did the job well..guess I was to hasty on things and overlooked something, sorry bout that.
Thanks again.