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When should I de-interlace?
I’m shooting PAL 50i SD footage in 16:9 with the XL2. Edit with FCPro 6. I’ve never had a problem before with deinterlacing and have never really thought about it before, but when should I deinterlace?
Tonight, I exported a project from FCPro to the desktop as a FCPro quicktime file, opened the file with quicktime player and went into Movie Properties. I ticked de-interlace and the image looked better. However, I was looking at that on an Apple 23″ cinema display. Will there be a difference when I play it on a TV?
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4 Replies
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There is never (normally never) a good reason to de-interlace footage that is going on a DVD. TVs are either interlace or made to handle interlace.
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I totally agree, but i want to add, software players should take care of de-interlacing when displaying on a computer screen.
(all good ones do)Bouke
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well quicktime 7 is my player on the macpro. I had to tick deinterlace myself in movie properties in order to get it to look okay on the apple cinema display. Do I need to use something else, cos I thought quicktime was pretty much the standard. Also, I hear that by ticking deinterlace in movie properties, saving it and dropping the file into iDVD to burn will actually make no difference to the resulting image on the DVD?
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Yeah- really deinterlacing is something you never ever *need* to do. Unless you’re trying to make interlaced look like progressive. But if you want that there are way better film look plugins such as Magic Bullet and Nattress that do a far more appealing job than the built-in deinterlacing filter in most NLEs.
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
https://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/magic.bullet.frames.24p/
-Noah
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