Utility for .AVI field order???

[pijetro]

Is there a utility to tell me what field order a captured .AVI starts off with, before I send it to the encoder??? Either my Avisynth scripts, or my cap card is changing field orders. I don't know why, and at this point I don't care.

I get chopiness on camera pans, so I have to change field orders (Restream), and burn again.....


I'm capping with a radeon 64ddr vivo, via Vdub (Huffy), and encoding to CCE.

[DJRumpy]

You can use TMPGenc, and the 'Deinterlace' filter. Adam posted this method, and it works very well. Just select Odd Field, or Even Field, and see if your output looks jumpy by stepping through the video. If it's jumpy, then use the other setting. You'll find the filter under the Advanced tab.

This setting is capture dependent. In other words, once you know what setting your capture device uses, it will always use that setting for video captured through that device. The only way your AVISynth script could change the field order, is by using the SwapFields command, or by Cropping using an odd number.

[HillJack]

This setting is capture dependent. In other words, once you know what setting your capture device uses, it will always use that setting for video captured through that device.

Actually, No, it's not device dependant. I regularily capture two shows/week from digital cable, and almost every time the field order is different -- Just get in the habit of taking 2 minutes before encoding to verify the field order, don't rely on it being the same every time, because it won't be.

As for how to do it -- DJRumpy is correct, use TMPGEnc. I've put together a small webpage on how to do it here. It's alot better than trying to decifer text directions

[DJRumpy]

You capture device determines the field order. Just as DV is always bottom field first, you capture device will ALWAYS capture the same field first. It's hard wired to do so. It doesn't matter what your source is, your capture device always captures the same field first.