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Freeze Framing with Interlaced footage
Sometimes AE is too smart for its own good.
I’ve got an animation proxy for a 30sec graphic. The proxy has a 2 sec intro animation before it comes to rest, at which point the proxy stops (at 2:01).
However, the proxy is interlaced. When I make a still frame (using Time Remapping) to fill the remaining 28 seconds, AE does what it does with any interlaced footage when it is freeze-framed – it de-interlaces it. The result is an ugly drop in resolution after the first two seconds, which considering it’s all thin text and coloured shapes is really noticeable.
How do I tell AE not to de-interlace that last freeze frame so I can get my pretty, crisp graphics back? I’ve tried using preserve edges, but that doesn’t seem to help.
Ideas?
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3 Replies
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The easiest way is to deinterlace your original footage and then not worry about this. There are tutorials on this site which will show you how to do this.
Best of luck
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Thanks Mike,
The thing is, I don’t actually have access to the original project that created the animation. De-interlacing the whole thing would defeat the purpose because then I’d just have ugly, ropey graphics throughout.
What I’m probably going to do, (in lieu of a more elegant solution) is just to reinterpret the footage as progressive, export a TIFF still of the last frame, then change it back to interlaced and use the TIFF instead of freezing the video.
Thanks
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I don’t get why AE is deinterlacing your footage if you aren’t asking it to. Never seen that. What is your source?
Joey
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