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After Effects to Avid to TV station – Progressive Footage.
So I’ve just been experimenting with the Magic Bullet plugin suite which includes a deinterlacer and some preset colour effects.
If we deinterlace the footage and render out as progressive, then import into Avid, then to DV tape, will the TV station crack up that it isn’t lower field first?
The Avid project includes normal interlaced footage as well. So there’s a mixture of interlaced and progressive footage in the same project.
(We rendered some as progressive because some of the shots had weird flickering caused by the Magic Bullet colour effects.)
Anyone know if combining progressive and interlaced footage is going to cause a problem when broadcast?
Ben.
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I’ve never had a problem combining Magic Bullet deinterlaced footage with interlaced footage. As long as the interlaced footage is correctly interpreted when it goes to tape you’ll have no worries. Keep in mind that any motion in the interlaced footage will playback smoother than motion in the deinterlaced footage.
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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Yep. If you choose a field order, make sure it’s the right one for your hardware.
Otherwise, you can give a station progressive footage any day — it’s an aesthetic choice, and many designers do it all the time. The station doesn’t know or care, because progressive footage plays back with fields — it’s just that the two fields are identical.
Nifty, eh?
Steve
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