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jagged text HDV to MPEG2
my text is very bad looking going from 60i HDV to SD mpeg 2 in FCP. I have tried deinterlacing, shift fields filters but no matter what it looks bad when it gets to DVD. It looks okay on a tv but bad playing on my computer screen. How can I fix this?
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Look at it on a TV. Seriously, the material is interlaced. The TV is either displaying the interlaced fields correctly in the case of a CRT, or it’s deinterlacing it nicely in the case of a flat panel TV. So it looks good.
The computer DVD player you are using is probably not deinterlacing or is doing it poorly and the computer monitor cannot properly display interlaced video. If it’s the Apple DVD player, you can set it to deinterlace and it should look decent.
Otherwise, you need to use a high quality deinterlace filter. The filter in FCP is not so good. One way is to deinterlace in Compressor when you make the MPEG-2. You do this by turning on Frame Controls and setting all quality settings to Better or Best and output fields to Progressive.
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thanks for the advice. I will give it a try. I had the deinterlacing on on Apple DVD player. should I have those settings on at all times when exporting 60i? Say archiving full res HDV or what about when I go from HDV24f to mpeg2?
I found a way to fix it. If I edit my project in HDV 1080 and then copy and paste the whole project to an SD anamorphic sequence and then export that, as mpeg 2 the text looks a lot better than having compressor downres straight from the 1080 sequence. -
[Thumper Nagasako] “should I have those settings on at all times when exporting 60i? “
Not necessarily. You should only deinterlace 60i material if you intend to play it on progressive display devices such as computers. TVs can handle the interlace correctly, so it’s best left alone for that purpose.
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