Interlaced Super 8 Telecine Conondrum

Here's the deal...

I recently had several reels of Super 8 Film professionally telecined to the following specs...

Format: Apple FCP Uncompressed 10 Bit 4:2:2 720X486 (634X480), Millions
FPS: 29.97

My plan all along has been to color correct in Apple Color. I recently spent the past few weekends learning the program and would love to start working with this Super 8 Footage ASAP.

Unfortunately it is interlaced which I realize is a big red flag with Color.

Before I even start cutting it together in FCP I'd love to know what you would recommend in terms of converting my source footage so that it will be ideal for color.

I was thinking that I could simply de-interlace my master footage in compressor keeping the format and fps the same. However, I have a few concerns about this as follows...

Would simply de-interlacing do the trick or do I need to somehow make the footage progressive as well. If I need to make my SD footage progressive please let me know what you would recommend as I'm not sure how to go about this. I read some other posts on this forum that said SD footage can never be progressive.

If you have any tips and/or suggestions please let me know. I've been on this forum since this forum for the past four hours and now feel more confused then when I started.

Thanks so much!






Tanner Almon

Thanks Walter. I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

Tanner Almon

Interlace is no problem as long as you have no settings in the Geometry Room! In the moment you do that your footage gets de-interlaced on render (and badly)
Also make sure that 'de-interlace renders' is not checked in the project settings.


Carsten