Procoder interlacing question (ntsc to pal)

[retos]

Hi

Ive been having problems with a dv capture (ntsc) to be converted to pal using procoder 2. Is it necessary to have the interlacing in the source the same as the target?

The source is lower bottom field first and the target is upper top field first. I ve been having the problems described below for months and have wasted several hours and dvds and Im wondering if this is the problem.
Thanks
Mike

I have been trying to create dvds from minidvs. I have tried it using ulead video studio 9 (for capturing) and procoder 2 (for conversion ntsc to pal) followed by tmpeng (for dvd authoring). I have been unsuccesful as the dvd when played stutters. I have used the original avi file from the capture as indicated in the forum, have the latest procoder and tried cbr and vbr.

So instead of using ulead studio for the capture I used Lets edit 2 to stay in line with canopus products. It works great EXCEPT for when I "stitch" the video in procoder, it shows for less than a second a black screen between the scenes. It is not tmpengs fault as I have played the video straight from procoder in powerdvd.

The question is why are these black screens happenning between scenes stiched and how can I stop it?
Also I did the capture in AVI 2 -is that a possible reason (they have ref avi, mpeg2 to choose from aswell)

Any help is greatly appreciated as this is very frustrating
Mike

[BJ_M]

you are describing two different problems ..

the stuttering issue and the stitching issue ..

procoder does a better job when you reverse the fields on ntsc to pal conversion - thats ok ..

dont know without more info why it stutters ..

the stitching black frame issue is covered in depth on the canopus procoder forum at canopus's web site ..