de interlace filter sucks !!!

[Andy Mees]

am assuming you shot Anamorphic 16:9 right? if thay are asking for a 16:9 delivery on digibeta then they are almost certainly intending that you deliver as Anamorphic 16:9 .. recheck your deliverables
if you shot interlaced anamorphic 16:9 and your delivery format is interlaced anamorphic 16:9 then there should be no need for a deinterlacer, third party or otherwise, nor should there be any need for upscaling, resizing, letterboxing etc ie no extra loss of quality beyond the capture format

[Rajarshi Basu]

Hi,

I tried making a new sequence with fields set to nonee
That removed a lot of jagged edges. But I am totally not satisfied with the result.

Now if i take an output on tape, and go to an online suite ….either Smoke or Quantel I don’t know which one is better for upscaling video with minimum loss…will the edges get smoothened out there ?

Raj

[Zach Rutledge]

I am having the same problems with my footage. I shoot on a SDX900 in the 24P mode. Capturing SDI in uncompressed 8 bit using a Kona LHe card from a AJ-SD93 Deck.

I have two images to show.

The first is of the original footage without using the de-interlace feature in FCP.

The Second is after the de-interlace is applied.

As you can see the artifacting going on is extremely bad and after playing with other plugins to try to fix this, I am getting no better results. Could this be my capture set up or an in camera problem?

Any help is appreciated.

[Tom Wolsky]

You have to look at the output rendered on a video monitor, or at 100% in the canvas. Neither of which you are doing here.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s hard to tell here as you aren’t including much footage with movement. Look at the top picture, it looks progressive.

Jeremy

[Zach Rutledge]

I always view my footage on an external monitor, trust me, it looks exactly the same as it does in the picture.

[Zach Rutledge]

The part of the pictures I wanted everyone to look at was the amount of artifacting going on around shoulders, heads, things like that. The quality level which seems to drop in using the de-interlace. I guess the questions are, what should be the best settings in in FCP, my camera and my AJA Kona set-up to prevent this from happening?

[Tom Wolsky]

And you see this on all of the deinterlace tools mentioned in this thread?

Also please make sure that the screen shot you put up is of a rendered frame in the canvas set to 100%. Nothing else is close to being a representation of the image. You should not see n image that looks like this on a video monitor.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, when you deinterlace a progressive image, that’s what you get as you are throwing away half the resolution. Prove to me that your footage is interlaced and I might have some ideas. The image of your original footage looks progressive to me.

Jeremy

[Zach Rutledge]

Yes, as I stated in the first post, I have tried all the plugins mentioned with no luck.

You are looking at a fully rendered 720×486 image. Everything is 100%.

We have tried using the magic bullet deartifacter along with the de-interlacer in FCP with no luck as well.

If you blend the fields you run into problems with motion and if you use some of the others mentioned you get this ghosting effect.

Any other suggestions?