Ok, so I'm a total newb when it comes to the ripping and capturing part of AMV editing, so forgive me if I'm horribly misunderstanding a concept. Until recently, I just relied on cheap software and friends to make XVid-encoded avi's to edit from. I pretty much got tired of video quality sucking ass and am trying to learn how to do it the way the pros do, and I've been studying the A&E tech guides like crazy. Finally I decided to take a dive and actually rip something. I'm at the stage of indexing videos with DGIndex, and I think I have a grasp on it, but I'm still trying to make sense of the Force FILM option.
So I've ripped some episodes from the Cowboy Bebop Remix box set, including the opening and closing credits (I know, I should have cut them out when ripping. I tried to do that, but cutting out the opening sometimes cut out footage following or preceding the opening, and I did try to cut the credits, but I accidentally only cut out the "next episode preview" and I really don't want to spend several hours reripping every episode.) Now, the A&E tech guide says that if the picture is <95% film then you should force film, but this is not a hard number, and if the final number can be as low as 90% and it will be fine as long as the only interlaced parts are the op/closing and bumpers. All indications point to that being the case, as when previewing, the number turns out to be around 96-9% FILM when on the parts of the actual show, but when it is on the studio bumpers/opening/credits, it drops to anywhere between 60 and 90%. Yet when it is done saving for the first time with Honor Pulldown Flags checked, the number displayed in the video type box is around 85-88%, well under 90 in any case.
My question is twofold:
1. Is the number displayed after the first save an average percentage or rather the percentage of the very last frame displayed?
2. Given the circumstances, would it still be acceptable to use Force FILM?



