for DVD : upper or lower frame first

bnigrell · Post by **bnigrell** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:40 pm

appearently I have seen several opinions about this setting "upper/lower frame".

When you want to burn a DVD, what has to be this setting in order to get a correct result ?

thanks

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:52 pm

I don't think you will have seen "several opinions" on this forum.

for best quality you must burn your DVD using exactly the same settings as your project settings - that can be either upper field first or lower field first.

You decide which to use at the capture stage - if you are capturing digital video you use lower field first - if you are capturing analogue you use upper field first - but whichever you have to use - - use the same setting at all stages.

bnigrell · Post by **bnigrell** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:55 pm

Thanks Briancee. This clarifies.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:50 pm

I assume this is related to your immediately preceding post about a DVD which plays erratically on your stand-alone DVD player...? If so, it might have been a better idea to have rolled the two postings into one to avoid confusion. As I said in response to the other post, I think you may have used the wrong field order.

And in a slight gloss on Brian's response: if you were capturing analogue video, then as Brian said, normally it would be captured Upper Field First. BUT there are some capture devices out there (Canopus, Winfast DV 2000 amongst them) which capture analogue using Lower Field First. But as Brian says, if it captures Upper or Lower, then the final burn properties should also be respectively either Upper or Lower.