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[Andy Taplin]

Thanks Charles

So I think you’re saying dont blend the deinterlace in Cleaner but use one field or the other and use adaptive?

I’ve always blended the deinterlacing in Cleaner becuse it sounded like it would create a smoother image? Certainly for MPEG-1 it caused no problems and looked very good.

6.5 has the same deinterlace options as 6: use each field or blend and adaptive or not.

Thanks for your help.

Andy

[Charles Simonson]

Yes, don’t use blend, use the dominate field and adaptive.

Blending does create a smoother image, too smooth for my tastes, but to each their own. I greatly prefer sharpness and detail over a smooth image, but would use smooth when maybe targeting a very agressive bit rate where image quality was less important.

I understand 6.5 has the same deinterlace options as 6, I just don’t know if there have been any changes to the code in this area from the previous version.

[Andy Taplin]

That’s very helpful Charles, thanks,

Andy

[Charles Simonson]

If you want to see a excellent case of where blending can really hurt an encode, check out this gem on Apple’s site:
https://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/flyboys/trailer/
I could barely watch it the motion was so terrible. And certainly while I was watching it I wasn’t paying attention to the actual stuff going on in the trailer.

[Andy Taplin]

Does look pretty bad, but not an effect I’ve ever seen with my own encodes using blend!