Encoded With Wrong Offset

[Video Dude]

I use CCE Basic 2.67 to encode DV cam clips. The proper setting should be offset=1, since DV is interlaced and bff.

During a batch run I used the wrong template with offset=0 to encode some clips. So I have a directory with clips: half are fine, the other half have stutter due to the wrong offset.

When I play them back using WinDVD they are all fine. The only way I can tell which have the stutter is to author them to DVD and play them on my tv. This is too expensive to do for all the clips.

Is there a way to detect the stutter in the bad clips on my pc so I know which ones to fix with the program Restream? CCE Basic 2.67 encodes everything tff (thus the need for the offset), so I can't just check the field flag.

Thanks.

[Kedirekin]

This might help: how to tell up field first or down field first? (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69870)

[Video Dude]

Thanks Kedirekin.

I'll frameserve with AviSynth and view it in VirtualDub to detect the clips with the incorrect offset, then fix it with Restream.

[Matthew]

You might want to use pulldown instead of restream, because then you can batch process.

Place all ones you want to switch to tff in one directory and run the following batch file:

FOR %%A IN (*.m2v) DO (pulldown "%%A" "%%~nA-fixed.m2v" -tff odd -framerate XX -nopulldown)

Place all ones you want to switch to bff in one directory and run the following batch file:

FOR %%A IN (*.m2v) DO (pulldown "%%A" "%%~nA-fixed.m2v" -tff even -framerate XX -nopulldown)

If running from a DOS box and not a batch file then use % not %% for all instances. And I've assumed an extention of m2v not mpv (just change from *.m2v to *.mpv if need be). XX should be replaced with 25 or 29.97.

[Video Dude]

Thanks Matthew. That would be a lot easier.