"Feathering" Problem when converting AVI to Mpeg2

Objective:
To encode uncompressed AVIs to DVD complient Mpeg2 without "feathering" during motion scenes, and creating DVDs to play with DVD stand alone player.

I have ...Canopus ProCoder 2 and WinAVI to encode.

Do I need to correct this problem with the interlacing settings and/or kbps bitrate type and rate?

Thank you very much

 

By "Feathering" you mean you get a Combing effect in High Motion scenes then that is From Interlaceing which should only show up on your PC monitor not on your TV set...This is because your TV set is Made to Display Interlaced Video were your PC Monitor can only Display Progressive Video so on your Monitor it shows Both Fields of the Frame at the Same Time which means you can see the seperation between Fields which is what causes the effect you are Talking about....

If you are seeing this effect on your TV set then it could be because you have the Field Order set incorrectly which will cause this effect on your TV set....

Read about it here:

http://scanline.ca/deinterlacing/visual.html

You can go into the Filters and use the De-Interlace Filter (Use Procoder because it is a Much better encoder than WinAVI but much slower) which will get rid of this effect on your TV set and Monitor but will make the Image a Little Blurry so it might be goos to add a sharpen filter after the De-Interlace to make it less Blurry....

Both Procoder and WinAVI can turn your AVI into a Video_TS folder which you can Burn to DVD but this DVD will Not have any Chapters or menu"s or scene selections so if you want to make DVD"s with these Features you should also get a DVD authoring program Like "MediaChance DVDLab Pro" so you can add your Own Creative Touch to your DVD"s....
You can use it to also make Audio DVD"s and if you are really creative you can Make Games that you play useing your DVD Player ,TV and Remote....

Also remember to select your Bitrate Based on how long your AVI file is because you don"t want to encode to DVD Format only to Find the File is to Big to fit on a DVD or so small that there is a Lot of left over space on the DVD....
Get yourself a Bitrate calculator like "PowerBit" which will tell you what Bitrate to use Based on the Length of your Video file and the audio Bitrate that you want to use so it Fits perfectly on a DVD....


Cheers

 

Minion; Once again, you've been extremely helpful, AND solving a major problem I had regarding ----Why my 2 hour captured/encoded movies were way too large for a DVD----, before I even asked the question! Yes. I now see the importance of the bitrate calculator.