Preserving Interlaced Video in DVD Builder

[VSmith]

Hi, I've just got a new computer which came pre-loaded with EMC 7 Basic DVD. Playing about with DVD Builder for the first time last night and I managed to create some menu's and an intro, using some .avi's I captured from my DV cam via firewire.

 

I burnt the project to DVD, played it back on my set top DVD player and it appears that DVD Builder has encoded the clips as progressive mpeg 2's, rather than preserving the original interlaced video. I've searched everywhere for an interlaced / progressive setting but cannot find one.

 

I need to preserve the interlaced video look for this project so can anyone help me out with this?

 

Thanks,

Vic

[malatekid]

Hi, I've just got a new computer which came pre-loaded with EMC 7 Basic DVD. Playing about with DVD Builder for the first time last night and I managed to create some menu's and an intro, using some .avi's I captured from my DV cam via firewire.

 

I burnt the project to DVD, played it back on my set top DVD player and it appears that DVD Builder has encoded the clips as progressive mpeg 2's, rather than preserving the original interlaced video. I've searched everywhere for an interlaced / progressive setting but cannot find one.

 

I need to preserve the interlaced video look for this project so can anyone help me out with this?

 

Thanks,

Vic

I don't think the option to select an interlaced or progressive video is available before version 8.

[james_hardin]

Everything V7 burns in Interlaced.

 

Other possibilities are that it was burned as PAL instead of NTSC or the other way around.

 

Likewise, since we don't know what it looks like, could be set to a low quality setting.

[malatekid]

Everything V7 burns in Interlaced.

 

Other possibilities are that it was burned as PAL instead of NTSC or the other way around.

 

Likewise, since we don't know what it looks like, could be set to a low quality setting.

Thanks for the info.

[VSmith]

Thanks for the replies. I used the following project and burn setup settings.

 

Video Quality: Good. ( Mpeg 2, 720x576, 8 Mbps )

Audio Format: LPCM.

Video Standard: PAL.

Recording Format: DVD-Video.

 

The mpeg2's that DVD Builder spits out are definitely being encoded as progressive, PowerDVD reports them as being progressive too. Just tried another quick test by creating an ISO image using a smaller clip, extracting the vob from that and playing with PowerDVD; same result.

 

I tried encoding the DV cam avi's with tmpgenc, and then authoring with tmpgenc dvd author and the interlaced video remained interlaced after the burn, no probs. I'm in the UK so PAL is the correct setting for me.

 

Cheers,

Vic

[james_hardin]

WE have some other PAL users here so I will have to defer to their knowledge…