re: de-interlacing DV Pal footage

[Ed Dooley]

Is the original footage progressive, or are you just trying to make interlaced footage progressive
while you capture it? Are you viewing it on a video monitor, or your computer monitor?
Ed

[northern] “I am capturing some mini DV footage (that I did not shoot) and if I capture it with the DV Pal settings switched to progressive it still seems to give me interlaced footage. I am making sure my capture settings, timeline settings and export settings (when exporting a Quicktime movie as DV pal) are all the same. What can I do to stop the interlacing which looks terrible on quick camera moves? I have tried using the standard de-interlace effect but the result is too low quality. Any help would be greatly appreciated.”

[Joel Maslin]

Hi Ed.

Many thanks for your reply.

The original footage would seem to be interlaced and I would like to try to turn it progressive as I capture it if i can. I am viewing it on my computer monitor. Ultimately I would like to end up with an .avi which dosen’t look interlaced.

Best,

JM

[Ed Dooley]

By just de-interlacing your footage you’ll lose half the resolution, which you really don’t want to do.
Nattress filters do it without losing resolution, by blending the 2 fields together:
https://www.nattress.com/Products/filmeffects/filmeffects.htm
There are also other filters, as well as workarounds that don’t work quite as well, but are free, do a search of posts in the forum
for deinterlace and it will turn up hundreds of posts.
Ed

[Joel Maslin]

Hi Ed

Thanks for your reply, I’ll investigate some of these filters.

Have a nice day

Best

JM