heard that i shall not edit interlaced material.

From what I know I hsall not edit and make my own cutts with interlaced material. I shall deinterlace it and cutt, edit and render the final as interlaced mpeg. I use Vegas for my cutting and I really dont know how to setup the perfect settings for it. I normally work with PAL and i nowdays make the vob into a progressive PAL file. Now i have started to order stuff from a dvd pool in the UK and its all NTSC interlaced ... sucks so bigtime. What is the best for me to do? I have read all about IVTC but really not got the hang out of it. I have CCE, TMPGEnc and the normal freeware that this site recomend but the parts with NTSC is so blury in this forum i think. Is there such thing as progressive NTSC perhaps? EDIT this is what the .d2v file has in it when created with dvd2avi: Stream_Type=1,0,0 iDCT_Algorithm=5 (1:MMX 2:SSEMMX 3:FPU 4:REF 5:SSE2MMX) YUVRGB_Scale=1 (0:TVScale 1:PCScale) Luminance_Filter=0,0 (Gamma, Offset) Picture_Size=0,0,0,0,0,0 (ClipLeft, ClipRight, ClipTop, ClipBottom) Field_Operation=0 (0:None 1:ForcedFILM 2:SwapOrder) Frame_Rate=29970 Location=0,0,0,17FB8 .. lots of numbers .. FINISHED 0.00% FILM

vegas by default edit in interlaced mode, it handle interlacede video and everything. so edit with interlaced source to inderlaced file is fine.

Yes you can make progresive NTSC, but what are you going to play it on? I think you want to convert it to PAL. The NTSC blurryness can be caused my many things. One if you are playing the DVDs in a multi standard player, thats one problem, and second, if you are using again a multi standard tv/monitor, that another. You need to use for playback units built for the NTSC for use in those counties, not for export to PAL countries. Here in the US,we high end Video stores that sell Europe design NTSC expensive monitors, and the picture looks like crap! I do alot of s-vhs NTSC interlace tapes 29.97, and convert to 59.985 progresive. They looks real good. the next step for you is frame rate change. Look at for a real good over view on this matter. Last thought. I am sorry to say that here in the US the so called video engineers, most of them would know a good video signal if they saw it, and there are a lots of just bad film transfer on DVD. richard photorecall.net

Hey hang in there, it's not as bad as you think...try things. richard