DV to DVD - De-interlace?

[jasonlava]

Hi all. I have a question.

I'm capturing DV video from my Digital 8 cam to Adobe Premiere 6.5. I do my edits and save a final file in DV format.

In TMpeg, I've been playing with the different filters including de-interlace which gives me progressive frames and removes the "comb" patterns when you play the video back on a non-interlace screen and give a nice clear picture. Should I do this when encoding? Or what if I didn't de-interlace and then played the DVD on a TV that had progressive scan? Won't the fuzzy comb pattern show up again?

I know I sound like a newbie but thanks in advance!

[Vejita-sama]

Since you're working with a true interlaced source I would not de-interlace. MPEG2 (DVD and SVCD) support interlaced video source. When played back on TV the picture will look fine. Progressive TVs play both interlaced and progressive video sources.

There are basically two times you want to deterlace:

1) IVTC - if you source is a 23.976fps progressive film that's been telecided to 29.97 interlaced. You want to run a IVTC program, because if/when you re-ecode you get a higher quaility MPEG.

2) If you are making VCDs (MPEG1 only supports progressive source) or a DivX file (PCs only display progressive source).