DV Codec that allows Deinterlaceing?

[chainz]

Hey Guys

Is there a DV codec that will allow you to deinterlace it when capturing the video from my minidv cam?

I also want to record everything into avi files to archive on dvd discs. Whats the best way ??

[lordsmurf]

Why deinterlace?

[bugster]

Is that one question or two?

DV is interlaced. That is a fact. By de-interlacing you are obnly going to reduce the quality. It can be done as a psot capture process, but the result will no longer be DV format.

As for archiving, if you want to maintain best quality, keep it as DV, just split it into 4Gb chunks for writing to DVD.

If you must make it smaller there are many options. Mpeg-2, Mpeg-4 (xvid, divx etc) or even H.264 for even more compression, it depends just how much playing time you want to get on each DVD and what you intend to do with the archived mateial later.

[chainz]

Well 2 questions now lol. Just decided to add it in instead of make another thread.

Hmmm...I thought it was interlaced because when looking at it on the computer you see the lines like it's interlaced....

I just wanted to put the video on a dvd disc so I could later on edit the video and encode parts of it to xvid for people to see.

[dipstick]

Just a couple of Points here:

* All dv source from DV-Cam is interlaced even 24p. Footage shot in 24p or Frame Mode(25p-30p) uses 2 fields of the same time instance and can be viewed on PC with no interlaced lines.

* DV-AVI does indeed support Progressive video, but you can't export it to camera in that format.

For best Quality, keep your video as it came from camera. You can cut it up to 4.3 GIG chunks in Virtualdub and burn to DVDRs. If you want to view them on a PC, but have the standard (normal mode) interlaced footage, you can de-interlace using a number of options, but the quality will degrade. Your better off encodeing to DVD format and burn your friends/family a copy.

[edDV]

Also you can view the file with a deinterlacing player like VLC.

Consider your DV video your master. Preserve it.

You can create progressive copies for web display if that is your goal but the quality will drop like a rock.

If the end goal is TV display, edit in DV format and encode an interlace MPeg2 for DVD. An interlace source like DV should be authored to an interlace DVD. If the TV is progressive (e.g. HDTV), it will have internal deinterlacers that will optimize for local display.