Field Sequential 3D lost converting to DVD

[Newmexi]

I shoot field sequential 3D home movies on my camcorder with the Nuview 3D adapter. I have tried to transfer these movies from my 8mm video tape to DVD. I have a Canopus ADVC-100 that I use to get the analog video and audio into my computer. I have used both Ulead MediaPro 6.5 and Ulead DVD Moviefactory to capture to my harddrive in AVI format. When I view the AVI, the video appears to have the field sequential information needed for the 3D effect. However, when I convert from AVI to MPEG so that I can burn to DVD, all of the field sequential information seems to be gone. How can I get this transferred from tape to DVD without losing the field sequential 3D information? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

[tonyp12]

How does it store the left and right video?

Does it do by splitting a screen in half,
or on alternating interlaced fields?

I have not found any tech info about that yet.
http://www.vrealities.com/nuview.html

This site claims that any video editing will work:
http://www.i-glassesstore.com/h3main.html#H3A1A3

[BJ_M]

make sure you are encoding in interlaced mode -- make sure you have the correct field order.

[Newmexi]

It is done by alternating interlaced fields..... The problem doesn't come from editing it in AVI format... the problem occurs when converting to MPEG for burning to DVD.

[BJ_M]

yes i know how its done -- i do a lot of 3d work but not so much that type i admit/ more polarized type .. what i said relates to the encoding proccess though -- not the editing process ..

i.e. make sure you encode at 29.97 , make sure field order is correct (it should be normally bottom up) , .. and make sure field order is not swapped in tems of which starts first ..

now some encoders use exactly 29.97 and some use 29.9703 which has caused me problems on sync in 3d and on audio as it will drift a frame now and then ..
i always work with times code or frames which makes it much easier ..

when you are done editing also - make sure you render to 29.97 drop frame not NDF

[Newmexi]

Thanks for your help. Your advice pointed me in the right direction. I could not set those variables in Ulead's products, so I went and got a copy of TMPGEnc and it solved ALL of my problems with the conversion to MPEG2. Ulead's converter is just a mangler. Thanks again.