Field order issue?

[Cyclope]

I had 7 hours of footage recorded in VHS, all related to the same subject, a conference.
I passed the VHS tapes to sony HDD/DVD. 2 of them I converted in SP quality= 2hours of video and one in LP=3hours.
Then I passed the recorded DVD to hard disk and did very small cuts to gain some time and space , because my intention is to do put the 3DVD's in only 2 authored dvd with menus. For this pourpose i cutted the video with WMV, wich has I was told doesn't reencode.I confirm, it's true, a wonderfull tool. After that i needed to save some space, so i used TMPGEnc DVD source to encode the video to half D1 and minimize the bitrate/size of the video. I put it transfering to 3100 CBR. So far so good. didin't lost any real visible quality , and the files were half size than they used to. I authored the DVD and he play's really well in the computer, but in the standalone it's terrible. Inspite of converting the video in CBR it looks like it as breaks when there are zooms of the audience or fast movements.

For now my questions are:
1- Is this a field order problem?
2-If so, it append when i transfered VHS --> HDD, or when i encoded in TMPGEnc?

I noticed that WMV detected the stream that came from the HDD was VBR. could this have been a problem too?

I know that there's a lot of issues, but i would like to sove this problem, it append with a previous work that i did for school, and the begginning of the proceding was the same, 12 min of Ivan the Terrible of Eisenstein + 10 of the Mirror(zerkalo) from Tarkovsky (all with academic pourposes) from DVD-->HDD/DVD sony and then to DVDLAB pro.

Thanks for your patience.

[byteguy]

When working with MPG files, it is important to know the field order. ReStream will tell you that. Note; the "change field order" function of that program is only to fix the flag if it is set wrong. It does NOT actually change the field order inside the file.

The TMPGEnc step could be a problem. If you started with a top-field file but put it out as bottom-field then you will get problems like you mention. Again, check the field order then make sure your settings match.

I don't know about WMV, but for cutting bits out of an MPG file you can't beat VideoReDo. It does not re-encoding, fixes errors inside the file, and it's FAST!

[Cyclope]

Thanks. i managed to find that tpmgenc had the problem. did 2 testes.
the main problem is that i allways thought that only video from the dv had to be encoded bottom field first. seems i was wrong.
Now i'm reencoding the files after WMV bottom field first.
I don't know videoredo. can I do simple cuts and transitions on movie? does it encode 2hours in less than 5 min? if it does,I surrender.
Thanks again. If there's anything I can do, just say.