• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  How to properly de-interlace still frame before exporting it

  Posted by Victoria Murphy on September 17, 2008 at 12:44 am

  I want to export a freeze frame of NTSC DV so I can use it to create a mask in Photoshop, which I will then import back into FCP. I made a freeze frame but when I viewed it in Photoshop I noticed some haziness around the edge of the part of the image around which I want to create a mask. I think is due to something funky going on with the fields. Should I de-interlace the freeze frame in FCP before I export it? What field should I start with? (I hope I am asking the right questions, it’s been a while since I have dealt with field-interlace related issues.) Thanks.
  Victoria

  Victoria Murphy replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Don Greening

  September 17, 2008 at 5:59 am

  [Victoria Murphy] “Should I de-interlace the freeze frame in FCP before I export it?”

  You can do the de-interlacing in Photoshop. Look in the filters under “Video”. The field order for DV NTSC is lower field first so play with the de-interlace filter in Photoshop until it looks right.

  – Don
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  Victoria Murphy

  September 18, 2008 at 1:30 am

  Thanks, Don. I’ll get a chance to try this till tomorrow.
  Victoria

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