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  • De-interlacing HD and sequence settings question

    Posted by Jari Innanen on April 3, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    I’m working on a short trailer that is shot with HDV and AVCHD 1080/50i. I’ve transferred the material to ProRes 422 HD. For this trailer to finaciers we want to get “a film look”. Delivery formats for the trailer will be BD, DVD and web.

    Clip and sequence settings are set to ProRes 422 (Upper). If i apply a de-interlace plugin to clips should I change the field order in sequence settings also to none prior exporting?

    Also what is the best order to use plugins for this fake film look? I plan to use a smart de-interlace (Joe’s?) plugins, an add noise plugin and maybe Core Melts Filmic Look plugins.

    So far the tests look pretty good, just not sure about the sequence settings thing, should the field order be set to none if I apply a de-interlace plugin to every clip. Any input about video to “film look “would be appreciated.

    Mac Pro Quad, MacBook Pro, MacBook Black, iPhone 2G, HP Dreamcolor

    Jari Innanen replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Michael Sacci

    April 3, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    I don’t use those filters but normally you want to use De-interlace filter first since it will throw away a lot of the information and average what is left back into the progressive frame. But take a close look at the Filmic filter, most likely that will do the progressive conversion also.

    But I would do
    De-interlace
    Filmic
    Noise

    Yes the field order should be set to none or else you will add interlace back in when you export the movie.

    – Our software is idiot-proof, if you bought it it proves you are an idiot. – Dilbert

  • Tony Brittan

    April 4, 2010 at 11:02 am

    Check out “Magic Bullet Frames” plug-in. Really good deinterlace AND can give a true 24p film look. Also, you may wanna desaturate it a bit…3 way color corrector is fine for this or if you’ve got the budget, take a look at Magic Bullet Looks or Mojo from Magic Mullet (Red Giant Software). Just a couple of suggestions. Oh…btw, Compressor does a great job of deinterlacing…especially when you use frame controls and set it to progressive! “Better” is usually enough on the settings as anything higher will take days to encode 🙂

    Tony Brittan
    Apple Certified Pro – FCP
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  • Tony Brittan

    April 4, 2010 at 11:05 am

    Too funny…”Magic Mullets”. That was suppose to say “magic Bullets”. Typing on iPhone. Sorry about typ-o’s!

    Tony Brittan
    Apple Certified Pro – FCP
    YouTube.com/tonybvideo
    islandshoreproductions.com

  • Jari Innanen

    April 9, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    Thanks for Your input Michael and Tony. I think I’m getting there. Here is what I have done so far, if you want to take a look:

    https://vimeo.com/10810648

    regards,

    Jari

    Mac Pro Quad, MacBook Pro, MacBook Black, iPhone 2G, HP Dreamcolor

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