VS9 Preferences

[bobfrank]

I'm working my way through the VS9 setup. I've delete VS8 so I don't know what all my settings were.

One setting that is giving me trouble because I have no clue as to what it means. On File/Preferences/Capture there is a setting called "Image capture deinterlace." I understand that TV images are interlaced and computer monitor images are not interlaced.

The help file and user manual are no help. All they say is "Enables constant image resolution when downloading files, as opposed to the progressive image resolution available with interlaced images."

For the vast majority of my work I'll be capturing DV from my camcorder or using the pass through of my DV camcorder to capture VHS tapes. These will be made into DVDs to be played on set-top TV dvd players.

So my question is how should this be set? Do I want "Image capture deinterlace" or not?

Thanks in advance for your help.

For those, like me, who missed the dropped frame counter from older versions (available in VS8 only through a .ini file setting) you can now choose to show drop frame information from this same preferences dialog. For some reason it's off by default.

[thecoalman]

If it's a setting for video no you do not want to deinterlace but that sounds like it's a setting for capturing still images which your going to want to deinterlace.

Best way to test it is take screencap of the same frame with it on and off and see if it removes the interlacing.