Changing Field Order to None automatically deinterlacing?

[David Quinn Carder]

I haven't been able to figure out why this is happening. There are tons of tutorials online for various ways to deinterlace footage, but I've compared the results of all those methods (which are good) to footage that has NOT been deinterlaced, but rather I change the sequence settings to Field Order: None. Despite the fact that my source is HDV1080i60, the result is identical to footage deinterlaced with other methods, but doesn't require any processing or even rendering.

What's up with that?

 

[David Quinn Carder]

Figured it out. It's because my output was downscaled to equal to or less than 50%, and at least with my footage, the simply dropping one of the fields is identical to deinterlacing. It's most talking head stuff, so I imagine I'm losing temporal resolution, but it's just not noticeable with this footage.