Confused about filters when doing VHS -> VCD conversion

[TnT]

I'm making my first VCD and I need a couple things cleared up:

1) I've heard that VCD does not support interlaced video and I've also read that non-interlaced video can cause problems. So do I deinterlace the video if I'm making a VCD? What about an SVCD?

2) If I do deinterlace do I do this before cropping and resizing or afterwards?

Thanks for any help.

[Dr Mordrid]

The VCD preset of your encoder will handle delacing.

The encoders VCD preset should handle resizing the video as well.

Dr. Mordrid

[wkulecz]

As to resizing, at least with TMPGEnc and DV source at 720 x480, I find encoding is quicker and usually noticably better if I crop 16 pixels off the side so the effective input resolution is 704x480 this then resizes nicely to 352x240 for NTSC VCD.

--wally.