exporting de-interlaced jpegs

[David Roth weiss]

Are you talking about exporting still frames, sequencial frames, or a QT using the JPEG codec?

[Jason Noto]

I digitized footage, and would like to export specified single frames (stills) to be converted into j-pegs. Basically, I was wondering what the best way is to turn digitized footage into stills (jpegs) that are de-interlaced. I know de-interlacing stills can be done in photoshop, but I was interested to know if I could expedite this process and do it all with Final Cut Pro, and perhaps even export multiple stills at once.

Thanks. I appreciate any insight and info you are able to share

Jason

[Ed Dooley]

I’m not sure about expediting the export process, but if you have a ton of exported stills that you bring
into Photoshop, you can simply add Actions to them as a batch. You could also crop them as a batch,
scale them, set auto levels, contrast, and color, all kinds of things that you would want to do in Photoshop anyway,
so you might as well deinterlace at the same time.
Ed

[Ben Holmes]

Either de-interlace in FCP using the de-interlace filter, or do it in photoshop. Either process is quick and easy.

Ben

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[Kyle High]

I believe the latest version of Quicktime will allow deinterlacing on export.

postman

[Kevin Monahan]

In FCP you’d have to export them one at a time. No way around that. Deinterlacing in PS is definitely better because you can batch>action that as was said.

Coming into question is your use of JPEG, though. This is a poor format to export with. Try a lossless one like PICT, PNG, TIFF or PSD instead.

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[Nick Meyers]

here’s how you do it in FCP:

after you’ve gathered all your stills,
drag them all (or the bin they are contained in) to a new timeline.
apply the de-interlace filer.
drag them all back to a NEW bin,
batch export.

in the past, on slower systems,
ive had trouble (crashes) dragging a huge amount of clips from the timeline to a bin.
solution:
copy and paste instead.

i cant comment on whether the *quality* of the de-interlace would be better in FCP or PS, though

cheers,
nick