Field order is driving me crazy!
I'm doing analog to DV pass-through and everything was fine with my first couple of captures. I didn't even pay attention to field order, as it seemed that procoder was defaulting to the right selection. Then one of my resultant DVDs became jumpy on the last half. I had used two different mpeg source files and obviously the second one had used the wrong field order.

Luckily, ReStream was able to take care of it. But upon further inspection, I noticed that my first few captures had been encoded top field first (and played fine), another one had been encoded bottom field first (and played fine), and the most recent that was jumpy was bottom field first.

After research it appears all DV output should be bottom field first, yet I had to convert it to top field to work! This is all through the same DV camera. I have about 8 more encoded files (all bottom field first) to go through and try to figure out which ones will play correctly. I'm sure this will make sense to me after another year of doing this (or 10).

To make it more confusing, all the programs use slightly to very different terms when referring to field order. Even, odd, bottom, top, A, B, .......argh!

Is there a guide or a table that lays out field order considerations, especially noting the different way that programs refer to it, and which nomenclature from program x refers to the nomenclature of program y?

Maybe the "experts" on the various programs in this forum could respond with the way the programs they use refer to it (Specialist for Ulead, DonPedro for Pinnacle, etc.)

I have the following couple of links which has helped (and added more confusion).


https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=194728

http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html