Interlaced in CCE

[Skelsgard]

This is very ridiculous but, doing mostly 23.976 --> Pulldown3:2 encodings, I just realized that I´ve never seen a "Interlaced" kind of option for CCE.
Where can u set this? as doing some captures from NTSC source, I intend to encode to MPEG-2 just "as is" for playing in NTSC DVD player.
If not possible, than I´ll just stick to HC for interlaced sources.
Cheers.

[Video Dude]

In the settings:

Uncheck the Progressive frame box.

Select Alternative instead of Zig Zag.


Determine the field order of your video. Follow the guides/sticky if you don't know how to do this.

Older versions of CCE only output TFF. Set the Offset line box to 1 if your video is BFF. 0 if your video is TFF.

Newer versions of CCE can output either. If TFF, then check "output top field first". If BFF, then uncheck "output top field first". Offset line box = 0.


For interlaced NTSC: GOP: M=3, N=5.

[Skelsgard]

Thanks, dude, my problem was cause I knew what settings I should use for interlaced but wasn´t paying attention to the offset line value. Incredible how something as dumb as that can have your going around in cirlces tweaking things that have no effect whatsoever :D
Thanks again.

[Trixter]

Older versions of CCE only output TFF. Set the Offset line box to 1 if your video is BFF. 0 if your video is TFF.

FYI, my personal experience is that some software players wig out if you output a BFF MPEG-2 stream, so I've stuck with TFF without issues.