Progressive or Interlace.....can not tell

[nepenthe420]

Hello all.

I attempted to morph 'Jesus of Nazereth' using DVD2AVI but the program kept flickering between progressive and interlace. When I chose Save As AVI, a fatal error occurred followed by a dialog box stating a certain part of memory could not be accessed, there are no current problems with my RAM as far as I know.
Anyone else ever have this problem?

Much thanks.

[jggimi]

Welcome to Doom9's forum!...kept flickering between progressive and interlace... This is usually indicative of Telecined content, where the MPEG-2 flags are not set for pulldown. This means that you cannot use the "Force FILM" option of DVD2AVI, and the content will require Inverse Telecining (IVTC).

I assume of course, that you have the Region 1 NTSC disc from the 1977 miniseries. There were also films made in 1928 and 1942 with the same name, but I don't think they're available on DVD.

This miniseries was shot on 35mm in Technicolor, and the NTSC transfer was most likely Telecined.

If you have the German or UK Region 2 PAL transfers, you must not attempt to IVTC.

Whether you are working with NTSC or PAL, I recommend reading the IVTC Tutorial (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34696) here in the DVD2AVI forum. It is geared toward NTSC transfers, but has good guidance for PAL transfers as well.

[nepenthe420]

Thanks very much jggimi!!! I will give it a shot.

[atreides93]

Hey guys, why does everyone try to de-interlace or reverse telecine DVD's that are 100% interlaced? Is it so you can watch it on your computer? If you just want to make a copy, doesn't it make sense to leave it the way it is and avoid problems or quality loss from the deinterlace routines?

[Asmodian]

I don't think most people (anyone?) are trying to inverse telecine DVD's that are 100% interlaced, that wouldn't work and would screw it up. Yes the main reason for deinterlacing interlaced video is to watch in on a non-interlaced display, though one might also do it if the destination format did not support interlaced video. If the video is only going to be watched on an interlaced display and the format supports interlacing then leaving it interlaced would be a good idea. 100% interlaced DVD's are rare aren't they?

[atreides93]

Seems like all those TV comilations are interlaced. like the sex & the city season DVD's etc