[Christopher Dospil]

If your footage is shot interlaced at 60i then your project should be set for interlaced 60i. Don’t confused your project settings with your render settings. Keep the project interlaced and the render progressive and you should be fine.

So.. if the project settings are interlaced (i.e. field order defaulting to “lower field first”) then for better viewing on the internet, i need to have the project set to deinterlace, either via blending fields or interpolating them, correct?

Of course, shooting progressive to begin with will eliminate the whole issue all together.

This may not be an appropriate question for this particular forum, but using the GL2 – the standard film setting is 60i, and the Film Frame Mode would be my only option for shooting progressive, correct?

John, my sincerest thanks to you for your gracious assistance. I’m an amateur without the know-how, so i appreciate your time.

[Christopher Dospil]

Ok, i’m still unable to resolve it. I suppose i could be seeing the artifacts now because i’m looking for them, and perhaps they are masked fairly well.

I’ve noticed that filming with a Canon Gl2’s ‘Frame Movie Mode’ yields crisp footage with no artifacts at all. Is this because frame mode is progressive?

Is 60i something I don’t want to film in if my footage will all be played from a website?

[Christopher Dospil]

Actually, the only way to see interlaced artifacts is by watching interlaced video on a progressive monitor. So what you think should work is exactly what doesn’t work. Interlaced footage will only look correct on an interlaced monitor or a progressive monitor that has the ability to deinterlace.

I see. I was definetly mixed up in my understanding then, so thank you for the correction. Whats confusing me even more though, is that right now i’m utilizing the interpolate fields deinterlacing method in my project settings and still seeing them.

You didn’t say how you are rendering for YouTube. If you render progressive you should not see interlacing. Try using Match Media to match your project to the 60i footage that your camera shoots. Then render using the Sony AVC type with the Internet 4:3 SD 30p template.

I have matched the media settings on many occasions, but not used the Sony AVC type so that could possibly resolve everything! I’m literally going to attempt these settings immediately and return with the results! Thank you for your time thus far, John.

[Christopher Dospil]

Danny,

Thank you for the response. I believe the horizontal lines i’m talking about are called “interlace artifacts”? However, I thought they would not be visible on a progressive monitor filmed in 60i?

Is there no way to eliminate them? I see very very clean video on youtube utilizing this particular camera fairly regularly, and the render settings do not appear to differ from mine.

I’m quite confused.