Do I have to deinterlace AVCHD footage from Vixia?

[Bret Williams]

Why would it deinterlace it? Why do you want to?

[Alphonse Breaux]

>Why would it deinterlace it? Why do you want to?

Because I don’t know what the “heck” I’m doing and I read elsewhere on the Internet that deinterlaced 60i movies look much better than the 60i movies that the Vixia spits out, so you should deinterlace it before editing it. I “assume” that if this is true, FCPX will deinterlace it for me. I’m asking because I want to know if it is true, and if so, does FCPX do it automatically.

Thanks,
Alphonse

[Rafael Amador]

You must deinterlace if you want your movie to be played on progressive screens (computers).
If you are going broadcast or Bluray, you don’t need to de-interlace.

[Alphonse Breaux] “I read elsewhere on the Internet that deinterlaced 60i movies look much better than the 60i movies that the Vixia spits out,”
That’s not true.
Deinterlacing you are dropping half of the original picture information, and you lose half of the temporal resolution. It always will make movement less smooth.

FCPX will automatically deinterlace the stuff if you drop it on a progressive project.
rafael

[Bret Williams]

The 480i stuff I used in a 1080p project was not deinterlaced automatically. Have to go to inspector and turn on deinterlacing if that’s the case.

X deinterlacing looks great though.

That said, don’t do that. Edit interlaced. When you’re done you’ll have an interlaced version. Then export that via
the YouTube setting or compressor, etc. Deinterlace at that point.

[Craig Seeman]

You haven’t mentioned your shooting mode.
The Canon Vixia/Legria can shoot in a progressive mode which is a form of PsF. FCPX will identify it as interlaced but it will look progressive.

[Alphonse Breaux]

>You haven’t told us what mode you shoot in:

I shoot AVCHD in MXD mode.

[Alphonse Breaux]

Wow! This is crazy!
So if I want everyone I know to have a good copy of my video I must:
Render a Master File copy for archive.
Render an SD copy for DVD players.
Render an HD copy for BR players.
Render an interlaced copy for those with old TV’s.
Render a deinterlaced copy for those with flat-panel TV’s.
Render a copy for Youtube.

Or, I guess I could just put it on Youtube and hope they all have Internet!

Thanks for the help,
Alphonse

[Alphonse Breaux]

I’m sorry, that’s MXP mode, not MXD.

[Rafael Amador]

[Alphonse Breaux] “Render a deinterlaced copy for those with flat-panel TV’s.”
TVs (flat-panel or not), are Interlaced.

[Alphonse Breaux] “Or, I guess I could just put it on Youtube and hope they all have Internet!”
That will be the best, but don’t forget to de-interlace.
rafael

[Craig Seeman]

[Alphonse Breaux] “Wow! This is crazy!
So if I want everyone I know to have a good copy of my video I must:”

Don’t forget copies for tablets and smartphones.
This is why you can set up to encode to multiple targets in FCPX and if you need to make custom settings in Compressor, FCPX can use those as well.

[Alphonse Breaux] “Or, I guess I could just put it on Youtube and hope they all have Internet!”

Which is why so many people deliver to YouTube… which will also encode to several different sizes/datarates which can be chosen by the viewer based on one’s connection speed.