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  1. 29th Sep 2005 19:19 #1
    sharktacos
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    Hi people: I'm hoping you all can help me to figure out how to get rid of these image artifacts I am getting on my DVD.
    I'll try to give all the info I can to help in figuring out what I am doing wrong...

    Method (what I did)
    I filmed some stuff with my DV camera and transfered this to my computer with firewire saving it in Windows Movie Maker as DV-AVI (NTSC) since all the other options where for .wmv files which are not really editable, whereas I can open up an .avi it lots of applications. So far so good. Then I converted this to mpg-2 with TMPGEnc Plus and authored the DVD with DVD-lab and finally burned it with Nero.

    Problem (what I get)
    When I test it on my computer with power DVD it looks fine, but when I play the DVD on my TV in the parts where I have things close to the camera that are moving a lot, I get these smeary line artifacts in the image as if the TV/DVD cant keep up with the movement and makes these blurry streaks over parts of the picture.

    I'm posting here because I'm really not sure at what point in the process this might be happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also if you need me to give more details about anything for a better diagnosis, please let me know.

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  2. 29th Sep 2005 20:07 #2
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    Interlace sounds reversed. Flip it. use RESTREAM
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  3. 29th Sep 2005 20:35 #3
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    I have a hunch that the problem might have to do with interlacing too. The video was interlaced, but I encoded it with progressive scan (non-interlace). I'm now trying deinterlacing the video before encoding it into mpg-2 and see if that solves the smears.

    Can someone point me to a guide on interlace in TMPGEnc? There are a lot of options there (top vs botton field, 3:2 pulldown and inverse pulldown, etc) which I dont really understand...
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  4. 30th Sep 2005 02:36 #4
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    If it is for TV, you are better off leaving it interlaced. Bottom Field First for DV (most of the time).
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  5. 30th Sep 2005 03:06 #5
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    Originally Posted by guns1inger
    If it is for TV, you are better off leaving it interlaced.
    Why is that?

    Bottom Field First for DV (most of the time).
    Can you explain this a bit? I know that even is for PAL and odd is NTSC. Does "Bottom field" = "odd field" = NTSC?
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