field order problems

[dukey]

I have this dvd, indipendance day (PAL) and the field order changes during the video several times.

This leads to huge chunks of the video being interlaced. If i change the field order around, then the inverse chunks seem to be interlaced ;p

How can i fix this ?

[Mug Funky]

that's odd. a big-budget movie like this should be all progressive.

you could work around it with something like:

trim(0,x)++trim(x+1,y).doubleweave().selectodd()++trim(y+1,z)++trim(z+1,0).doubleweave().selectodd()

where x, y and z are the cut points where the field-order changes. of course you can put as many as you like...

[dukey]

it basically is progressive
but it looks like something went wrong when it was transfered to dvd ;p

Is there any easier way of fixing this ?
over a hours worth of video footage to go through is too much to manually fix

[Mug Funky]

if there's a ".d2v.bad" file, rename it to .d2v and try load that.

but that's probably not a good solution (ie i don't know if it'll work).

there may be 2 hours worth, but how many transitions are there? there can't be that many. just scrub through and note the frames where it becomes interlaced. if it never becomes interlaced at all, then there's no problem.

or maybe there's 12 frames interlaced to every 12 frames progressive, in which case you can use telecide(guide=2) and decimate(25) to give you 24fps output (there's some PAL movies out there like this, the new jackie chan one for instance).

[Guest]

If he's using the latest DGIndex beta, the bad file will not have been created, and he can try invoking Tools/Fix D2V.