ID4 Special Edition INSANELY interlaced - HELP!!!

[NetSoerfer]

hey...

i'm trying to encode Independence Day Special Edition (German DVD, PAL, the version that's 9 minutes longer)

but i've seen that it's interlaced, so i tried all the stuff told in the doom9 guides (swap field order [DVD2AVI], fast & field deinterlace[via Frameserver] etc... all didn't work (the former one was still interlaced, the two latter ones both resulted in an error message displayed in the served video).

so i loaded the d2v file into TMPGEnc and saw that its beginning is interlaced in the following pattern:

1 0 1 0 1 0

i tried to use that pattern, but realized that the movie changes it quite often (not as often as anime, but like 6 times or so)... until i finally came to a scene where there were like 6 or 7 frames ALL interlaced. there were NO non-interlaced frames between them.

how can i deinterlace that movie? i cannot use swap field order. i cannot use VerticalReduceBy2, only if both crop and resize are disabled. but that's not exactly what i want...

any ideas?

thanks in advance...

ah, and please let me know if you need more information about what settings i used...

>>gknot 0.26 package<<

soerfer :/

[Nogami]

You may need to just encode in NTSC mode rather than trying to pull it down to 24p. For films that aren't transfered to video with a constant cadence output, managing 24p may be extremely difficult if not impossible.

I ran into this same problem while attempting to convert the 2-sided Das Boot flipper into a single-sided DVD-R. Since the transfer isn't constant cadence, the pulldown sequencing could concievably change every time the shot changed. Not good :(

In the end, rather than set everything manually, I just encoded NTSC and lived with it :p

[NetSoerfer]

uhm... maybe a dumb question, but... how do i encode in ntsc?