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First thing to do is figure out where the combing is happening:

- Is it happening at the stage where you import the video from your DV camera to the PC? yes

- Is it happening at the stage where you convert the DV into something editable on your PC?

- Is it happening during the editing stage?

- Is it happening when you perform the data compression?

- Is it happening only on final playback?

Somewhere in the various bits of software will be a setting to deal with it. But you need to know which stage it's happening at before you start twiddling settings.

You know, I suspected it would have something to do with interlacing, but couldn't find any setting to address this.

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If the first capture file off of the camcorder is genuinely combed, then your capture process needs to do something about deinterlacing the video better. Or, possibly, you might need to simply tell all the bits of software (from capture all the way through to final edit) that you want them to stay interlaced the whole time and don't even TRY deinterlacing. That way the final playback (let's assume it's a DVD-R) will look right on your parents' interlaced television set.

That's what I looked for, but unfortunately the program I was using had almost no settings in regards to the actual capture of the video. It had all sorts of settings for previewing, length of capture, etc, but nothing that dealt with the video and audio. I assumed it grabbed it just like it saw it, so that made me wonder why it was doing this to the video.

Basically, when I'm in the capture screen of my video editor, I can play back the video in preview mode (just like most of these types of programs), and I can even see a little of the combing there.

Is there a setting on the camcorder I should use?
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Matt