Timewarp misconceptions and Andrew Kramer’s plugin and workflow.
Timewarp is actually Kronos from foundry. Here’s what they have to say about it.
“Essentially, by ‘deinterlacing’ in this way you are losing half the vertical resolution of your clip.”
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To maintain this information in a accessible manner you need to pop your fielded clip in a composition of double the frame rate. Thus for our 25fps PAL DV clip, create a 50fps composition. Now when you look at composition frame 1 you see the lower field of frame 1 of the DV clip, looking at the composition frame 2 you see the upper field of frame 1 from the DV clip; comp frame 3 = lower field dv frame 2 and so forth.
Using this double frame rate composition allows Kronos / Timewarp to access the information in the second field and thus give an improved retime result with less temporal and spacial smudging. Obviously, you can then drop this into a lower frame rate output comp and field as necessary. It’s a little difficult to show the improvement on a compressed static shot as much of it results in smoother temporal transitioning, but the below pics should give you some idea.
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https://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:lGRi9AAfmZMJ:support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl%3Fnum%3D1140098384/0+kronos+site:https://support.thefoundry.co.uk&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=us
So, he’s losing vertical res. Essentially, by ‘deinterlacing’ in this way you are losing half the vertical resolution of your clip.