Authoring Programs That Have Built in Deinterlace Feature?

[christopheramos]

Hey! Can anyone suggest an authoring program that has a build in deinterlace feature (for buring to later play on standalone DVD players)?

Thanks!

[edDV]

No need to deinterlace in software for a standalone player. Progressive players have hardware deinterlacing.

Why would you want to extend authoring times and lower quality?

[christopheramos]

Why would you want to extend authoring times and lower quality?

I am not sure what you mean by this question. Can you explain?

[jagabo]

Deinterlacing is more work for the conversion program and deinterlacing lowers the quality of the video.

Interlaced video is the native state for standard definition (and 1080i high definition) TV. If your source is interlaced and your making a DVD, leave it interlaced.

[christopheramos]

I guess what I was trying to say is that my MPEG-2s have interlaced lines. When there is movement, the picture looks bad. I am under the impression that by using a deinterlace filter, that will clean up the video.

[edDV]

If your TV is interlace, there is no need to deinterlace. You will only be extending encoding times and lowereing quality.

If your TV is progressive, it is the job of the progressive DVD player to hardware deinterlace or inverse telecine interlaced sources. Make sure you invest in a progressive player that has high quality hardware deinterlacing with "cinema" inverse telecine processing.

[jagabo]

If your TV is progressive, it is the job of the progressive DVD player to hardware deinterlace or inverse telecine interlaced sources.

Or the TV.

[christopheramos]

Okay, so I shouldn't be worried about the interlaced lines that appear on my computer. That the standalone DVD should take care of it (if it's progressive scan)?

[edDV]

Okay, so I shouldn't be worried about the interlaced lines that appear on my computer. That the standalone DVD should take care of it (if it's progressive scan)?

Yes a progressive DVD player can deinterlace or inverse telecine the interlace encoded DVD to 480p, or ...

a standard 480i DVD player can feed a progressive TV as 480i (best over YPbPr) and the progressive TV can inverse telecine or deinterlace.

If you have a cheap HDTV (i.e no "cinema" inverse telecine) get a good progressive DVD player with that feature.

As far as computer playback, use a good deinterlacing software DVD player like VLC (free) or PowerDVD or WinDVD that often come packaged with DVD players. These players will eliminate the line split during motion.

This way you preserve the original quality of the original 480i video file. As an alternative, you can software deinterlace for extreme compression but you may want to keep an interlace backup at higher quality if the file is important to you.