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Changing Field Order
I’m trying to create a video compilation in DVD Architect with a number of small clips. However, among the clips you will find different field orders – some are upper field first, and some lower field first (and some are progressive).
DVD Architect wants to deinterlace some of them so that the compilation will have one field order throughout. But the deinterlacing is lessening the quality of those clips, because the fields have to be blent and the final result has that fuzzy, deinterlaced look.
Is there a way of changing the field order of a clip without deinterlacing? I’d like to preserve the original quality of every clip if possible, instead of some of them being fuzzy.
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[Brian Tallant] “Is there a way of changing the field order of a clip without deinterlacing? I’d like to preserve the original quality of every clip if possible, instead of some of them being fuzzy.”
No. 🙁
Field order tells the device that’s playing back the video which field was recorded first. Since there is a time lag between the first recorded field and the second recorded field, it is important that you not switch these. In other words, you can’t change which field came first any more than you can change 10:02pm coming after 10:01pm. That’s just the order they are in. This is why you must deinterlace the footage to get both fields showing the same temporal frame and the reinterlace them in the other order.
Why are you doing this in DVD Architect? Why not place all of the videos into Vegas and have Vegas render them in the same field order? That will give you an option of using blend fields or interpolate fields or even using a 3rd party deinterlacer like Boris BCC DeInterlace.
~jr
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