Interlaced Footage in AE

[David Bogie]

Have you tried to change the footage interpretation?
If it cannot be changed, you may have actually shot it progressive.
Also help us to know the source camera, codec, and ow you ingested the footage.

bogiesan

[Steve Roberts]

Keep in mind that if you want to scale, rotate, blur, move vertically or otherwise distort the footage, you need AE to separate fields, otherwise you’ll get a jittery mess. Check the help for “interpret footage”.

When viewing at Best Quality (not draft), AE interpolates between the fields when you choose to separate fields, or when AE automatically separates fields, as it might have done in your case. When viewing at Draft, AE doubles every other field. That’s just the way it goes. The fieldskit pugin should do a smarter interpolation, but that depends on the motion in the footage.

[Danny Hays]

You want progressive when chromakeying. Key filters have a hard time with fast moving subjects in interlaced video. If your camera can shoot in progressive I would do so.

[Christina Rule]

hey thanks for all the responses. I don’t have the footage in front of me right this sec( i will in a few hours) I know you said that I don’t want to key out when I have Interlaced footage but if de-interlace the footage is it still going to be a horrible mess?

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[Christina Rule]

Dave LaRonde –
Thats the thing though When i bring the footage into AE i just make a new comp with it and it automatically isnt interlaced anymore. The interpolation is set to non on the footage also…idk how to fix it

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[Danny Hays]

Thanks Dave, I’ll look into that. Do you leave it interlaced to the delivered video? I personally don’t like the look of interlaced footage on an LCD monitor or TV. But if the edges are cleaner keying interlaced footage, I can key first the convert to progressive. I’ll give it a shot. Danny