De-lacing plug-in for FCP version 7

[Rafael Amador]

If you are talking about “de-interlacing”, you have FieldsKit and Nattress for FC.
There is also an standalone free application called “Jes deinterlacer”.
Compressor has also very good deinterlacing options.
rafael

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[Ben Holmes]

Most of the ‘smart’ deinterlacers do this by using motion detection to retain information that would be common between fields – in this way, they try to keep the vertical resolution up whilst having a progressive look.

The problem is that they can cause atifacting when they get confused, which is often more distracting that a straight de-interlace. Whatever you do to interlaced material, it will not be progressive when you finish (unless the camera shot PsF) – you can’t fake it entirely.

When you talk about ‘interpolation’ you usually mean the opposite of this process – you are creating extra fields or frames from material, such as when you use optical flow, or 4-field interpolation for smoother slo mo. With a de-interlace, you are trying to take away fields, and this is trickier, as the image moves between them – it’s impossible to just double these up to make a single frame without guessing at the motion.

Apart from graphics and small text, de-interlacing holds up much better in HD than it used to in SD material. For this reason, since moving to HD entirely, I bother a lot less now with ‘smart’ deinterlacers.

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[Bret Williams]

Why not work in interlaced, and then run the final product through compressor or AE to create the progressive final? Keep everything high quality as long as possible.

[Sheree Day]

HI

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I’ve only just learnt FCP and Motion. Haven’t got to After Effects (that will be a fair while down the track – I’ve heard it’s hard to learn), and not sure if I have compressor (don’t think it came in the package).