interlaced and progressive

[Nick Meyers]

that’d be one approach, and it’d pretty much do the trick for a simple sequnce,
but i’ll offer another.

y’know, a lot of people wouldn’t even see the difference.
i know i do, and i care about it.

another thnig that bothers me is when i see interlaced motion effects on progressive footage.
that would include any keyframed pan n scans or zooms, or wipe transitions, etc.

my method for dealing with these along with interlaced footage is to nest my entire final sequence,
and de-interlace that.

as far as that goes, Nattress had the best de-interlacer for FCP, in my opinion.

cheers,
nick

[David Bogie]

Yar, but I tend to consider the target use. Do you need to deinterlace the interlaced stuff or do you need to introduce interlacing to progressive material?

bogiesan

[Michael Lavine]

exactly! That is what I am asking. I have 2 tapes of an interview. equal footage from both will be used and mixed together with multiclip. My assumption is to deinterlace the interlaced first and then edit together with the progressive? or can I just put a deinterlaced filter on the the one angle of the multiclip? or should I somehow try to match the progressive to the interlaced. Please excuse my ignorance, Im a newbie.

[Andrew Kimery]

Are you delivering to an interlaced or progressive format for final delivery?

-A

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Michael Lavine]

Andrew,
this piece will be viewed on the web. does it matter? is one better than the other? progressive is supposed to look more like “film” but its hard for me to tell. I need to get this footage transfered and I want to make the progressive footage interlaced so its all the same. can I do that?

michael

Michael Lavine
http://www.michaellavine.com

[Andrew Kimery]

Your final format makes a difference because there’s not point in deinterlacing interlaced source material if it is just going to get reinterlaced for final delivery. Since it’s for the internet I’d convert all the interlaced material to progressive since computer displays are progressive and progressive material compresses better than interlaced.

Also, the ‘flimic’ aspects of 24fps and progressive images comes from the motion characteristics you get from shooting in that format. Taking 60i footage and converting it to 24p in post isn’t going to give you the same look.

-A

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)