Deinterlace 1080i footage?

[Scott Thomas]

I personally like the RevisionFX FieldsKit plugin. If there are some better deinterlacers, I would be interested in learning more.

I haven’t used it with HD footage, but I’ve used it to make 60p masters that I then take down to 24p on SD footage.

Nattress may also have a solution.

[Sean Oneil]

Is it 1080i 30fps, or 1080i 60fps? If it’s the former, all you do is change the clip’s field dominance to “none” in the Final Cut browser.

Otherwise I’d suggest JES Deinterlace. I’ve used a lot of them, including FieldsKit. JES is without a doubt the best. And it’s free.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jonny Flint] “I currently have some DVCPro HD 1080i footage and have been requested to achieve that infamous “film look”, should I be thinking about deinterlacing the footage to do this?”

Not really. I don’t equate “film look” and DeInterlace as the same thing. You achieve this by altering the frame rate and the appearace of the footage itself through a series of filters. Nattress and Boris both have really nice film looks. Color has a great Film Look filter that I’m using for a whole series of music projects.

I never deinterlace when someone asks for the “film look” because all that generally does is degrade the interlaced image.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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