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Storing content Interlaced or Progressive?
What are the pros and cons of archiving content Interlaced vs. Progressive?
I’m exporting interlaced SD material from an Avid system to use on my Final Cut Pro system at home. It’s always a pain having to get FCP to convert sequences to progressive so they look good on a computer screen. So should I export footage out of my Avid system in Progressive (using a QuickTime DV codec)? Or am I throwing away some of the detail by doing that at too early a stage in the workflow and therefore limiting my options? Any advice appreciated.
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5 Replies
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There are several ways of de-interlacing.
Some better than others, and QT export not belonging to the best ones.Some compression packages have better ways of de-interlacing.
However, for archival, i would recommend storing as close to native format as possible, and only de-interlace after the edit before final delivery, to keep quality as high as possible untill the very last step.
Bouke
https://www.videotoolshed.com/
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I agree with Bouke, for archiving nothing like the original stuff.
No much sense to de-interlace ALL your footage if you don´t know when, how or even if you gonna reuse it.
Whatever you do, don´t recompress to DV.
rafael -
Rafael, actually I do recompress to DV, but only because the company I work for stores the content in Avid MPEG-IMX format. I think I’m correct in saying that acquiring such a codec for QuickTime would cost a lot of money and probably means purchasing an Avid NLE package? Grateful if you could advise?
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Don’t “de-interlace” until you are compressing for web/comp. screen playback.
Archive originals. As they are – native.
Chris Tompkins
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Hi Graham
You are right.
The “AVID MPEG-IMX” is not included in any of the AVIDs free codecs packages, but you may try “Apples IMX”. I guess you only need QTPro to open that in AVID.
rafael
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