Is my source Interlaced or Progressive?

[magomago]

I'm really confused :eek: I'm ripping Ah my Goddess the Movie. I found it was a 16:9 in a letterbox(4:3) but when I fed the movie into DVD2AVI for a while it might be progressive, and for a while it might be interlaced....it doesn't do a very fast fluctuation This is with forcefilm off...and it always fluctuates between 37% NTSC and 62%Film- Do I force film this or not? Or do I use the IVTC using Gknot? Thanks

EDIT

The reason I asked this is because according to Gknot instructions I don't force film it and I just de-interlace later....but I've also learned that you almost always IVTC when it comes Anime mainly because you want to go from the 29.97 of the digital source back to the original 23.976 that it was filmed in

[dahuman]

try force film then at the save and encode part do a preview and see how it looks. if it looks fine without any filters then ur good to go. IVTC should be ur last resort.

[manono]

Hi-

Done much anime, dahuman? That's usually good advice with regular movies, but anime's different. magomago, I don't know of too many anime movies that can be Force Filmed successfully (only a few Ghibli Studio movies come to mind right now-and Ghost In The Shell, maybe). But almost all of them can be IVTC'd. That DVD2AVI Preview takes too long to learn much if you do it from the beginning. If you want to use the Preview, your best bet is to use jggimi's trick of using the slider and the "[" button to start from somewhere in the middle (and don't forget to reset it back to the beginning when done testing). In any event, you should probably make the .d2v with no Force Film and then apply IVTC in the .avs. I've done Ah! My Goddess (NTSC R1) with no problems.

[dahuman]

hehe yeah i've only encoded tenchi muyo in love anime movie wise(and some ovas) so im no expert at anime encoding =).