• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Freeze Frame

  Posted by Bill Walsh on July 12, 2008 at 10:38 am

  Hi Everyone,

  I am sure this question is easily answered but it has been vexing me for over a week. In the credits for my movie I used cameos of the “stars” in action and then froze them into a still. The problem is that the still flutters when shown on television (from a DVD) but not on a computer. Does this have something to do with de-lacing?

  I really appreciate this site.

  Thanks,

  Bill

  Bill Walsh replied 17 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  July 12, 2008 at 10:52 am

  Apply the De-interlace filter to the freeze frame.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Tom Brooks

  July 12, 2008 at 1:55 pm

  Yep. A frame of standard def video is made from two half frames, called fields, which are recorded a 60th of a second apart. When you make a freeze frame the two fields are displayed together and the motion difference recorded during that 60th of a second causes the flutter. The picture is alternating between the two slightly different fields every 60th of a second. De-interlacing will stop the flutter.

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  Arnie Schlissel

  July 12, 2008 at 11:05 pm

  [Bill Walsh] “Does this have something to do with de-lacing?”

  Interlacing.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlace

  Arnie
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  Bill Walsh

  July 13, 2008 at 2:07 pm

  Thanks guys for your input and help. Again this place is great!

  Bill

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