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Does adding a flicker filter de-interlace my footage?
Shooting PAL 50i 16:9 with Canon XL2. I use flicker filter a lot on clips that I slow down to 50% and then render. Does using the flicker filter de-interlace the footage, creating just one ‘progressive’ field?
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I’m not positive that it does, but I believe the flicker filter in FCP 5.04 had de-interlace in the drop down menu as the last setting in the list, so I was always under the assumption that depending on the strength filter you were applying, you were getting varying degrees of De-interlace, which made no sense since I’d apply the flicker filter to problematic text/pics that shouldn’t have been interlaced in the first place.
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I’ve just been checking this out with some footage and there’s no doubt that you lose resolution (very noticeable).
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No, it does not deinterlace the footage, it adds a blur.
Even better is a Directional Blur set at 0 or 180 degrees and a value of 1 or 2. A directional blur will not defocus the entire image nearly as much as a gaussian blur, but minimizes the vertical flickering very much the same. That equals better in my book…
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