Bad Frames from TDeint or AVISynth?

I never correct any overscan, because it is simply normal on TV. Correcting overscan (meanig resizing) with interlaced sources will badly affect video quality and maybe also hurt compressibility. To avoid interlacing on the PC / Beamer, simply enable the deinterlacing of your MPEG-decoder.

A Result 

A Result I havent yet tried to localise which AVISynth filter might be doing the dirt on my video as requested by neuron2, but I've discovered a workaround. Apparently, the corrupted frames only occur when AVISynth operates on an audio/video .avi file (as opposed to a video only file). This I must conclude, since the following workflow produces a perfect video - compare it with the one in my original post: Export edited video only from Premiere via framserver to HUFFY .avi - I used TMPGExpress, loading the signpost file for the video and no audio. Export audio as .wav Load the .avs script in TMPG Express directly and encode the HUFFY .avi to DVD-compliant .m2v file. I also used a couple of theTMPGExpress filters here to colour correct and sharpen. Encode the audio .wav to .ac3 in AC3Machine Author the DVD directly using the .m2v and .ac3 files - I used TMP DVD Author. This produces an error-free DVD. Interestingly, I think the AVISynth is still producing a not-quite-totally-legit .m2v file, since if I try to mux it with the .ac3 file or an equivalent .mp2 file made either from AC3Machine, BeSWeet, or demuxed from a previous DVD of exactly the same length, TMPG Tools (simple multiplex) produces the error message: "388900s packets cause buffer underflow the mpg file might cause error when it played" (sic). In addition, the produced .mpg refuses to be authored into a DVD.

Thanks 

[QUOTE=Sergei_Esenin]I don't really encode to MPEG-2 at all anymore. DVDs are so 1999. :sly: Since I encode for my media collection and not for DVD distribution, I do all my archival encoding to high-res MPEG-4 ASP or MPEG-4 AVC, But what source is your archival material? Surely not DV broadcast which is already way degraded, or commercial DVDs... I was considering going beyond mpeg2 but like the situation long ago when VHS came to predominate over Betamax, due to the heavy investment and promotion of mpeg2 in commercial DVDs and in broadcast, it looks like we're stuck with it until the next paradigm shift.