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Interlaced on progressive timeline/vice versa
If you’re working on a project with your sequence settings set to a field dominance of “none”, can you simply add interlaced stuff to the timeline with no problems? Or is it good practice to first convert the interlaced stuff before you drop it on the timeline?
This question also goes the other direction, with the sequence being set to “Lower” for example.
Cheers,
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11 Replies
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Hi Paul,
When you put in a Progressive (NONE) sequence any interlaced footage (Upper or Lower-first) you need to apply a de-interlacing filter to that footage.
If You have an interlaced sequence (Upper or Lower) and you drop some Progressive footage, the footage will work well without any filter.
If you have an interlaced (Upper or Lower) sequence and you drop footage with the opposite field order, you need to apply to the footage a “Shift-fields” filter.
Cheers,
Rafael -
Hi, Rafa. Should I use Compressor to apply the deinterlacing, or does the FCP filter do just as good a job? Thanks,
Paul
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The FCP filter is no good.
Revision’s Fields Kit is excellent, but is limited to 8bit in FCP.
Graeme Natress has a deinterlacer.
Compressor does a very good job as well, but you will be creating new media with it. It’s free which is nice.
Jeremy
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Hi Paul and Jeremy,
The new version of FieldsKit now render in 10b. Untill now Nattress was the only one that could do it.
The day I’ll have a very “critic” deinterlacing I’d buy the FieldsKit. Is the most powerful I sow so far.
At the momment the Nattress is more than enough.
You can de-interlace in Compressor will work very well as long as you set it “Frame Contol: ON”.
Anyway I recommend you to get your self the Nattress or FieldsKit.
FieldsKit is 90 bucks.
The Nattress is 100 $$ but comes together with few others filter each of them worth enough the 100 bucks.
Cheers,
rafael -
[Rafael Amador] “The new version of FieldsKit now render in 10b. “
Where’d you get that info from?
https://revisionfx.com/products/fieldskit/features/
Jeremy
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Sorry, sorry, sorry…
I was thinking about Twixtor. The new fxPlug version works in 10b in FC:https://www.revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/features/#Final%20Cut%20Pro%20(Apple)
I’m waiting for the same fatures in FieldsKit.
Meanwhle paule, Nattress is the best option for FC.
cheers,
rafael -
Thanks to both of you for that. On a sidenote, can you explain why someone who lacks in-depth knowledge would care that this application you mention only works with 8-bit in FCP? (The obvious answer aside that 10-bit is just better 🙂
Cheers,
Paul
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[Paul Campbell] “can you explain why someone who lacks in-depth knowledge would care that this application you mention only works with 8-bit in FCP? “
If you take the care and time to work with 10bit footage, it’d be a shame to have all that care and time blown away by one silly filter that will knock your process down to 8bit.
If you’re working with 8bit footage (which is everything except Uncompressed 10bit, ProRes and some third party codecs) then there’s no reason why you can’t use it.
Jeremy
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ProRes happens to be a codec that we use quite often, so I’ll need to be careful how I deinterlace. Does FCP indicate in clip properties if my clips are 8 or 10bit? (I’m not in front of mine at the moment, sorry) Also, and I’ll be ostracized for asking such a subjective question, but is 8-bit really that awful compared to 10?
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[Paul Campbell] “but is 8-bit really that awful compared to 10”
Depends on your program. 8bit is not awful, no.
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