I also looked at Handbrake, but it apparently doesn't support interlaced encoding. Oh, I also tried just dropping it into Adobe Media Encoder CS5 and it did not keep the 59.94 fields/sec interlacing.
#TINYMEDIAMANAGER WINDOWS UPDATE INCOMPATIBLE PROGRAM MOVIE#
it won't open at all in QT Player 7.7.1 (says "Error -2002: a bad public movie atom was found in the movie") it plays back at 720x480 *or* 640x480 in MPC-HC 1.6.1 (it seems to alternate every time I open the video) Here's what I have working so far:Ĭode: program -crf 20 -bff -output "output" "input" The output looks decent, although I've noticed a couple issues (maybe minor): So I'm looking for a decent AVS template for feeding these into an x264 encoder. Like I said, I've been doing a lot of research and reading lots of posts, but these seemed most relevant: I realize interlaced encoding is not as efficient as progressive, but then it seems better than progressive 59.94 fps. I looked into converting them to progressive 59.94 fps, but the loss in quality (although slight, using NNEDI2/3 and yadifmod), plus the extra cpu time, plus the higher encoded bitrate needed to maintain the same quality has lead me to believe that I should encode them interlaced. I'm a bit of a frame rate nut, so I don't want to lose the smooth motion of the original interlaced files (29.97 fps or 59.94 fields/sec). I would like to convert them to a more usable/compatible format (and also save space on my server) to be viewed on my TV using either our WD TV Live or Xbox 360 (also acting as Windows 7 Media Center Extender). I have several thousand DV AVI's, almost all shot on a Sony DCR-TRV17, digitized using Premiere Pro, totaling about 1.8 TB. I think I just need a shove in the right direction and I'll be off. I've been researching the best way to do this for a few days now and my head is spinning.
Please don't hurt me too much for asking a question that has surely been thoroughly discussed.