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  • easy deinterlacing

    Posted by Nico Jones on February 21, 2006 at 5:20 pm

    Hello all, perhaps you could help…

    I’m doing a project in AE and have some lower field first footage of soldiers that I want to be/look deinterlaced when I export it. Usually I’d export it with ‘no fields’ or whatever on the render settings, but this time there are a lot of graphics in the project that need to be interlaced. Is there a way of deinterlacing footage within AE which carries through to the final result of a lower field first render? Cos at the moment I’m bouncing outthe LFF footage with no fields, bringing it back in and then exporting the movie as LFF. This works fine but it takes ages. I tried the ‘interpret footage’ option but that didn’t work and I can’t locate a ‘deinterlace’ effect or anythinglike that. no luck in ae help either…

    any help would be great!

    Vincent Rosati replied 20 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Andrew Kramer

    February 21, 2006 at 10:23 pm
  • Nico Jones

    February 22, 2006 at 10:06 am

    Thanks!

  • Vincent Rosati

    February 24, 2006 at 12:27 am

    Not sure if this will help…
    It should be noted that the “easy deinterlacing” technique results in the loss of half of your visual data and is commonly referred to as “line doubling”.

    Another techniques is…
    1. Import your clip into Adobe After Effects projects.
    2. Drag the video clip (in the Project window) to the Create Comp button.
    3. Type – Control + k to open the Comp Settings window.
    4. Type – Ctrl + Shift + Alt + k to open the Project Settings and set to 16 Bits Per Channel.
    5. Highlight the clip in the Project window and type – Control + f to open the Interpret Footage window. Set the Seperate Fields option to Lower Field First and check Preserve Edges/Motion Detect (available in best quality only). Click OK. Click in the project window to deselect the clip.
    6. Import another of the exact same clip.
    7. Repeat the above process, but choose “Upper Field First.”
    8. Drag the duplicate clip into the Timeline. Quality mode

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