De-Interlace advice wanted!

DArcyFD

DArcyFD

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hey,

this is one of those something-just-came-up-i-need-an-answer-quick posts!

long story short: i shot a music video earlier in the year and since the whole budget fell through at the last minute i had to shoot it on a sony pd170, interlaced. now the band's manager wants to send it to a national broadcaster and we need to get it dubbed to digibeta.

my question is: can anyone recommend any good de-interlacing methods? from what i've read FCP (which i'm using) doesn't do it very well. can anyone recommend any software? or should i ask the post house if they can do it before the dub?

i'm guessing that the dubbing to digibeta is interlaced anyways, but would running a de-interlacer beforehand make it look less video-y and more filmic?

thanks
 
In my expierence, re-vision's de-interlacing program does a very good job. Second on my list would be After Effects de-interlacing method. (Take footage in, put it in a comp, render it out, under the options set fields to none)
 
DArcyFD said:
i'm guessing that the dubbing to digibeta is interlaced anyways, but would running a de-interlacer beforehand make it look less video-y and more filmic?
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It's going to be interlaced output anyway, so deinterlacing won't make any difference.

Anyway, to answer your question: Compressor offers advance deinterlacing in it's Frame Controls tab.
 
DVFIlm Maker:

http://dvfilm.com/maker/index.htm

It will deinterlace and add a 24p film motion to it. Does a fantastic job getting rid of the video look. I've used it on a ton of VX2100 footage and it works great. Love it, love it, love it.

Word of warning: if you can apply it to the original footage you should. Any footage that has already been edited is going to wind up with double images anywhere you have cuts. And you'll have this problem with any deinterlacing program you use.
 
Why would you want to deinterlace a perfectly fine interlaced DV video? I mean, you'll only be throwing away motion information, resulting in an inferior image for no reason whatsoever. I keep tearing my hair out and wondering what indie videographers are thinking. Digibeta is interlaced, so keep it that way dammit. Sorry, but I had to say that.

It makes no sense to deinterlace if you don't plan to print to film. Keep it interlaced, and enjoy smooth, nondistracting motion and the absence of judder.
 
From the original post:

Question: "...would running a de-interlacer beforehand make it look less video-y and more filmic?"

Answer: Yes.
 
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