Should i use the “progressive” or “interlaced” settings rendering my MiniDV film clips? ?
Most miniDV video is interlaced. If you shoot normal PAL (720×576, 50 fields per second, interlaced) or NTSC (720×480, 60 fields per second, interlaced) you want to retain that. A few camcorders offer an “24p” mode, which is probably actually a thing called “NTSCfilm” mode. Theatrical films are shot at 24 frames per second, progressive. To make easy transfers from film, there’s a 23.976 fps format that’s easily converted to NTSC… some camcorders, such as the Canon HV20 and HV30, can shoot this mode. So basically, for most video editing, you want to indicate the format you’re actually using in the video clips themselves. Rending will then pretty much take care of itself. For DVD, the video modes I mentioned are each supported as standard DVD formats: if you shoot in PAL, render MPEG-2 in PAL, if regular NTSC, render to regular NTSC, if 24p, render to NTSCfilm formatted MPEG. Otherwise, you’ll be counting on your PC to do interpolations and frame-rate conversions, which will add needle
