Hi all,

I'm confused by profiles and interlacing; I wonder if someone could enlighten me please?

I have a mixture of 1080/50p and (I think) 1080/50i videos (and also some jpegs, and possibly also lower quality videos) which I wish to combine into a single video, to go on a DVD.

Should my "Video Profile" be "DV/DVD Widescreen PAL"?

kdenlive doesn't know which of my videos are interlaced and which aren't, right?

Should I therefore do something like
ffmpeg -i foo.mts -sn -vcodec libx264 -cqp 0 -preset placebo -acodec copy -vf yadif foo.mkv
to losslessly deinterlace the 1080/50i videos? Or is there another way that doesn't involve using lots of disk space?

Do I then need to do anything to tell kdenlive that the videos are all progressive, rather than all interlaced?

If I might later want to make a higher quality version too, should I use the "HD 1080p 50fps" video profile instead, but still render to DVD/"PAL 16:9 VOB"?


Thanks
Ian