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CineMotion vs. FieldsKit
I just finished a project where I used CineMotion to make my 29.97 interlaced footage “progressive” 24fps. It ususally does a pretty decent job, but this time I got a lot of interlacing artifacts on parallel-lines that were close together and any diagonals were very jagged. (This was Uncompressed 10-bit footage from a D9 source).
Coincidentally, I got an email today from Re:Vision with a deal on their FieldsKit which looks like it might do a better job with this in the future. While CineMotion does the progressive and the 24 fps in one plugin, I’m thinking I can apply FieldsKit to my 29.97 comp, render it out progressive and then drop it into a 24 fps comp in AEand come out with a cleaner result? Does that sound like a better option?
Any better solutions are appreciated too. THanks
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Hi Matt,
In those visual circumstances you are almost always going to get some artifacting. But, I always use FK for deinterlacing (except on the rare ocations that I get DV material in which case I use Magic Bullet (because it has an excelent DV de-artifacter) FK is a really great plug and much quicker to render than any other de-interlacer, it’ll certainly slay the ancient CM on render times. If you do quite a lot of this kind of work it’s a no brainer
HTH
Angus
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Thanks for the advice. Playing around yesterday I was stunned by the results I got from just using After Effects comps (no plug ins). I imported the footage twice, one set to lower field first and one set to upper, drop them both into a 59.94 comp, with upper set to about 50% opacity, dropped that comp into a 24 fps comp and that comp into a 29.97 comp. Added a slight blur and it looks a MILLION times better than CineMotion.
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