Need info on field order for capturing mpeg video

[snafubaby]

I use DVD Movie Factory 3. Yes, i should upgrade to their latest, and i will do that in due time. In the meantime, DVDMF3 has been working pretty good, until the last few nights. I usually get some pretty dang good captures to go from VHS to DVD. For some reason, the latest movie i've tried is not working out. The movie is pretty nice looking. VERY good quality tape. Has hardly ever been played, from the way it looks. Does field order have anything to do with the capturing? I am just trying to go through some troubleshooting. The capturing is very jerky. Trying to find out if it has to do with field order, and what it should be set to. I also should defrag the drive i am using. I will do that right now.

Please advise. Thank you!

[LightWeightProducer]

MPEG2 can accommodate top field first and bottom field first equally adeptly. If you suspect you have a field parity problem with a sequence, there's an few ways to handle it. One way is to simply run the MPEG2 video through something like project-x and flip the field order then see how it plays on a standard TV set via a standard DVD player. No recoding required.

[edDV]

The capturing is very jerky. Trying to find out if it has to do with field order, and what it should be set to. I also should defrag the drive i am using. I will do that right now.

Please advise. Thank you!

What is your capture source?

Field order errors will show during motion and not during stationary scenes.

[jagabo]

Analog interlaced video doesn't have a "field order". It's just an alternating sequence of top and bottom fields. It's only when those fields are captured and stored as frames (two fields per frame) that you have a field order. The capture device can start with a top field then add the next bottom field to fill a frame, or vice versa. So the player has to know which of the two fields in each frame was captured first in order to play them back in the right order. The field order is determined by the capture device. I've never seen a capture device that let you specify which field order to capture in.