• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Deinterlacing = Quality loss?

  Posted by Sarah Schela on March 29, 2013 at 8:34 pm

  I have a general question:
  Does deinterlacing video material automatically mean quality loss?
  I have read that during the deinterlacing process it throws away half of the image information so that would be no question that the deinterlaced footage has less quality.
  I am deinterlacing 50i footage to 25p using Compressor.

  Sarah Schela replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Nick Meyers

  March 30, 2013 at 6:55 am

  i haven’t used compressor to de-interlace,
  the main problem is that you cant see your results on an external monitor

  in the past i have used the NATTRESS smart de-interlce plug in .
  it is very god, best there is for use within FCP in my opinion.

  i took the same short clip, and applied 3 different de-interlace plugins i had, and on a blind test Nattress came up best.

  nick
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  Rafael Amador

  March 30, 2013 at 9:30 am

  Nattress, ReVision FieldsKit are very good.
  Jess Deinterlacer (free) is said to be very good too.
  The FCs default de-interlacer and QT deinterlacing, are to be avoided.
  rafael
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  Sarah Schela

  March 30, 2013 at 10:03 am

  Oh yes, I tried and found out. So I started using Compressor. But good to hear, I haven’t done anything wrong!
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  Sarah Schela

  March 30, 2013 at 10:05 am

  Thank you also for all the other suggestions. But yeah, worst thing would be the built in FCP effect or QT.
  I will have a look for the other suggestions you mentioned. Thank you so much, to all, so far!

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