No Chris, I'm sorry but you've kind of taken this off on another tangent... :)

My mistake initially was thinking that deinterlacer I was using did not have a blend feature but it turns out it does. It also expects you to slelect upper or lower for the footage being deinterlaced. I understand full well that SD ntsc is lower and hdv is upper. My question is what would happen if you sleceted the wrong field in the deinterlacer? What technically happens to the footage.. as I have been unable to see a difference either way.

John in his most recent post explained the shift in time you get from slecting the wrong field.

Really it was that simple but somehow this thread became more complicated than that... :(

Scott

Just to clarify, there's no right or wrong field. It just determines whether one version of the deinterlaced video is ahead or behind the other version by half a frame's duration.

You summed it up yourself, in line with all we said: you don't see a difference because... there IS NO difference.

Yes, it really is that simple.

That's what you say... Like I said it seems that someone who knows more than you or I needed to respond.. I've read articles about that screwing up the timing of the video... I don't know by how much but you disregarding it doesn't make you right...

If it didn't make any difference, there wouldn't be an option for it in pretty much every deinterlacer in existence now would there....

Scott:

Maybe this article will help....

http://library.creativecow.net/artic...nterlacing.php