Deinterlacing filter setting question

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accentphotography

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When I shoot 60i, should I deinterlace my video from the dvx100b and is it best to use the lower or even setting if so? Also if I shoot a 1080i with a prosumer HD camera for DVD export only, is it better to edit first in HD (sloooooow) or import the HD footage into a SD timeline? If that is the way to go, can I import a second video in 480i as a inset upper right corner video while the full 1080i view is the full frame (TV or display)?
 
Lower and even are the same setting, and yes, that's what you should use for DV.

You are using FCP 4.5, which doesn't support mixed format timelines like FCP 6, so you'll need to down-convert the HD footage to SD before using it for best results if you want to edit that way. Once your footage is SD, you'll be able to add other SD footage to the timeline as usual.
 
Thanks Cools. Could you tell me the best way to downconvert with FCP? I think the camera can down convert in the export menu to import to FCP but I would love to know the way in FCP. I am not sure what is better, FCP or in camera conversion.
 
You can use Compressor if you have it, or use Batch Export inside FCP. You can read more about Batch Export in the FCP manual.

You want to use the DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic preset, this will preserve the 16:9 widescreen aspect of your HD footage. Then you can use either the DV-NTSC Anamorphic Easy Preset to get all your future project sequences to be properly configured, or make sure that the Anamorphic 16:9 checkbox is checked for your particular NTSC DV sequence in Sequence Settings.

Depending on how much footage you are dealing with and your system configuration, it might take some time to convert all the content. So do a small test (for example 5 second HD clip) of the whole process to make sure everything is setup properly and you are happy with the results.

Having said that, some would point out that you might get better results if you stay in HDV during editing and then export to MPEG-2 for DVD, but if editing HDV is too slow on your system you might be better of converting to SD like you mentioned right at the start. Your best bet is to try both ways on a small clip and burn both of the resulting MPEG-2 clips on a DVD, then compare the results on your TV and see if it's worth it to stay in HDV or not during editing.

Hope this helps!
 
If you are shooting interlaced and your final product is interlaced you should not deinterlace your footage. All that's doing is kicking the image quality in the nuts.


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