tmpeg and interlaced need help

[Hitmandj]

Hi i have capture using the pinnacle rtdv. While capturing i dinterlace my dv footage. When viewing my dv footage in fast scene it looks great. But after encoding it to mpeg using tmpegh, all fast scene look a bit blured out. While if i burn the same file on to a dvd and play it on my tv, it looks like how the the dv file did in the fast scenes.

How can i remove the blur in fast scenes when viewing it on a monitor.


thanks

[DJRumpy]

Since your source is interlaced, and your de-interlacing it, you will get artifacts (motion blurring in your case). Leave it interlaced. This will look fine on your TV. On your PC however, you will see the interlacing. If your video card supports it, some players like PowerDVD, or WinDVD, will deinterlace for you on playback, minimizing the effect on a PC monitor. This works with MPEG video, not with AVI.

If you must deinterlace, and you don't like the motion blur, then you can try other methods of deinterlacing, which will introduce their own artifacts, like ghosting. There isn't really a good option to deinterlace true interlaced material, as they all leave something to be desired.

[Hitmandj]

Hi thanks for your reply. When playing the avi file , you do not see the motion blur.But the motion blur still apears even though i do not deinterlce it. Is there away to make my monitor true interlaced so i can get the video to display like it does on a tv.


Thanks

[DJRumpy]

Most newer monitors no longer use interlaced display modes. The flicker was too irritating on the eye. If your monitor is older, you may have a few interlaced modes. I wouldn't go there just yet though. If your not seeing this affect with your original AVI then there may be some other problem.

Check your field order. DV video is always bottom field first. If you get it wrong, you'll get a combing affect. It can also cause jerky video on panning, or high motion scenes.

Also make sure you TMPGenc settings are not set to deinterlace your output. It should be set to interlaced. The same as your input. I would also turn off any other filtering options until you correct the problem.