converting prog. scan dv to interlaced (not jittery) ntsc particular, material, possible

andy

Do you know if it's possible to take dv progressive scan footage and
turn it into interlaced, non jittery, ntsc video.

NTSC DV is 29.97 fps. If your source is already jittery / jerky interlacing wont help. If you have a DVX100 and created 24p material (on DV) then you could do a telecine - though I'm not sure if this will result in non-jittery motion.

Thanx

Just as i suspected

if you're into avisynth, you might want to take a look at manao's mvTools.

in particular, it can be used to convert frame rates by interpolating motion.  all you'd need to do is convert to 59.94, then separatefields().selectevery(4,0,3).weave() will give you interlaced, bottom-field first video that you can re-encode.

of course, it's not a perfect solution, but it's quite useful (and more than a bit slow)