• Adobe After Effects

  Irremovable Interlace

  Posted by James Murphy on July 28, 2011 at 3:49 pm

  I ripped some footage that was shot by my company before I arrived from a DVD. It looks like the footage was shot at 24p, but on the DVD itself, there’s a really bad interlace problem on occasion. After ripping it, I attempted to remove the interlace in After Effects using various tools (including Interpreting the Footage different ways with different tools, and also separately using Magic Bullet Looks), but nothing seems to do the trick.

  Does anyone know a way around this?

  Brendan Coots replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brendan Coots

  July 28, 2011 at 7:23 pm

  May sound obvious, but did you rip it in a way that would preserve the interlacing? If you just ripped to, say, animation codec, the interlacing would be baked into the file instead of being preserved for de-interlacing.

  Your best bet may be to just copy the MPEG2 file off of the DVD instead of ripping it. You will avoid additional quality loss, and should preserve the existing interlacing in the process – assuming the original author did things correctly.

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