Hey chaps
Kowderoi, you say that all you had to do was install the canopus DV codec to open the video files in VDubMod? I was unable to do this without first using the canopus file converter to convert the file to a type I DV file. Is there something else I am missing here? My captured files are via Premiere from a Sony DV cam.
I think you are right with your comment about not needing to de-interlace if you are producing SVCD for viewing on an analogue TV. However, if the finished product is going to be viewed on a PC then de-interlacing produces much clearer results but introduces many more problems of its own. Certainly if you are going to extract stills from the footage then these need to be de-interlaced (except if there is no motion!!!)
There is only one way to perfectly de-interlace and that is to shoot the footage in progressive scan mode, but I am unaware of any pro-sumer DV cams that can do this at 25 fps (PAL) or (29.???? fps NTSC). I am using a Sony VX2000 (PAL) DV cam which I was told was a sensational camera only to find that it films at 12.5 fps in progressive scan. This pissed me off.
I find that the only way to get to grips with the miriad of combinations of formats in the DV multimedia world is to totally immerse yourself in the cess-pit and come out stinking of effluent but slightly more knowledgeable for your troubles. I am de-interlacing by opening my files in VDubMod (after file conversion with canopus) and AviSynth. Using AviSynth to split the footage into separate fields, and de-interlacing with a nice filter from Gunnar Thalin (the smooth de-interlacer) which can be found at
This produces a 50fps, almost perfectly de-interlaced file. The downside is that the file sizes are massive, the encoding takes forever (because it relies on AviSynth to split the frames into fields), and the final product is very CPU intensive to play. If you then want to import the 50fps movie into Premiere for editting, extracting digital stills etc, then more problems surface. More monsters lurk (esp. with audio synchronisation) when Premiere exports the timeline as a finished, compressed product. I am trying to find a good way of de-interlacing in VDubMod which produces a 25fps file, at full resolution which can then be imported into Premiere for editting. I have tried some of the area-based de-interlacing filters but get too many movement artifacts.
Any suggestions???
Kind regards
Pertwee.
Kowderoi, you say that all you had to do was install the canopus DV codec to open the video files in VDubMod? I was unable to do this without first using the canopus file converter to convert the file to a type I DV file. Is there something else I am missing here? My captured files are via Premiere from a Sony DV cam.
I think you are right with your comment about not needing to de-interlace if you are producing SVCD for viewing on an analogue TV. However, if the finished product is going to be viewed on a PC then de-interlacing produces much clearer results but introduces many more problems of its own. Certainly if you are going to extract stills from the footage then these need to be de-interlaced (except if there is no motion!!!)
There is only one way to perfectly de-interlace and that is to shoot the footage in progressive scan mode, but I am unaware of any pro-sumer DV cams that can do this at 25 fps (PAL) or (29.???? fps NTSC). I am using a Sony VX2000 (PAL) DV cam which I was told was a sensational camera only to find that it films at 12.5 fps in progressive scan. This pissed me off.
I find that the only way to get to grips with the miriad of combinations of formats in the DV multimedia world is to totally immerse yourself in the cess-pit and come out stinking of effluent but slightly more knowledgeable for your troubles. I am de-interlacing by opening my files in VDubMod (after file conversion with canopus) and AviSynth. Using AviSynth to split the footage into separate fields, and de-interlacing with a nice filter from Gunnar Thalin (the smooth de-interlacer) which can be found at
This produces a 50fps, almost perfectly de-interlaced file. The downside is that the file sizes are massive, the encoding takes forever (because it relies on AviSynth to split the frames into fields), and the final product is very CPU intensive to play. If you then want to import the 50fps movie into Premiere for editting, extracting digital stills etc, then more problems surface. More monsters lurk (esp. with audio synchronisation) when Premiere exports the timeline as a finished, compressed product. I am trying to find a good way of de-interlacing in VDubMod which produces a 25fps file, at full resolution which can then be imported into Premiere for editting. I have tried some of the area-based de-interlacing filters but get too many movement artifacts.
Any suggestions???
Kind regards
Pertwee.
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