Quick question: Diff. between Non-interlaced & Progresive?

[PigOnWing]

OK, I know what Interlaced is.
I also thought I knew what's non-interlaced. I learned that back in the days that you could still get interlaced monitors and should have looked for non-interlaced ones.

Now I see that people are using 'progressive' to describe a scenario that the complete picture is being shown, as opposed to interlaced. So on one hand, it seems to me that 'Non-interlaced' and 'Progressive' are just two terms for the same thing, yet TMPGenc still seem to have all three options to describe as 'source'.

So what's the difference?

-- Piggie

[Nelson37]

My TMPGenc now lists just Interlaced and Non-Interlace(Progressive). I'm pretty sure they are the same thing, although I think you can de-interlace to get non-interlaced but progressive is as originally created, I think that's a definite maybe.

Just to further confuse matters, I think also that if you IVTC a clip then it is progressive as opposed to non-interlaced but I think both terms apply.

Gosh, I hope that helps, I know it sure cleared it up for me