I just want progressive to remain the way it is.

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

just have a question about progressive/interlaced.

I have shot 25p at shutter speed 1/50 using ND fillters a lot on a JVC GR-PD1. I love the way my footage looks. One way to put it, is that it looks like film. Really, though, it's just that it's not interlaced and not shot with a high shutter speed and 16:9 too I guess.

Anyway, my question is - when I finalize a DVD, will it just become interlaced? At what stage? When people I don't know place it in their DVD the make/model of which I can't plan for? Or before?

I just want it to remain the way it is.

Thanks for any thoughts.

G

[Rob Lohman]

Depending on the components (programs) you are using it doesn't
have to be. You can encode the MPEG2 in progressive and it will
be put on DVD in that way as well. Now it will turn into a sort of
semi-interlaced on a normal TV, but any progressive DVD has that
(including all the big Hollywood commercial ones) and usually looks
fine.

However, if you have a progressive capable viewing system
(plasma, projector etc.) with a progressive scan DVD player it
will be played back in full progressive as well.

[Graham Jones]

thanks Rob