[Cam Banks]

Yeah, I am having this problem also; I may start a separate thread, but since this one is recent…

I have unencrypted DVDs (about 18 of them!) that I need to cut up into bite-size pieces for web delivery. Originally shot on Digital 8 (so, DV codec, interlaced) and then somewhat poorly encoded into the DVD format. MPEG Streamclip reports them typically as “Video Tracks: 224 MPEG-2, 720 × 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps, 8.00 Mbps, upper field first, Audio Tracks: 192 MP2 stereo, 48 kHz, 224 kbps”

Some of them have timecode breaks, per MPEG Streamclip, which it can usually deal with, although there’s one where I can’t get the audio to sync. It’s in sync within the Streamclip player window, but no matter what settings I choose, the resulting Quicktime .mov file has an audio lag.

I’m trying for maximum quality from these DVDs so I’m extracting to uncompressed 4:2:2, either 8 or 10 bit, depending on the options. Still, I don’t like the deinterlacing artifacts – there’s got to be a better way?!

I have Cinematize Pro 2 as well, but it doesn’t deal w/timecode breaks as far as I can tell and won’t extract anything beyond the first tc break. Neither does the demo version of Cinematize 3. Likewise, I have Toast 11, which at least will deliver synced audio on the problematic DVDs, but doesn’t look any better.

Once you pick custom settings, eventually all these programs dump you into a multi-pane settings dialog box that is the same from program-to-program. I guess maybe this is the core ffmpegx settings or something like that?

I sure could use some help on how to use any of the 3 programs above to get 1) synced audio, and 2) an output without horrible interlacing artifacts. Or suggestions for a different program to try, or different settings? I guess that if I’ve got as good output as I can get, then I’ve solved the audio sync problem (I’ll use Toast 11 for that dvd), but the deinterlacing really looks like crap so far.

I’ll go play w/JES deinterlace now and see if that looks any better.

Thx,

Cam