PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%?
by Jack Kelly
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Jul 13, 2007 at 11:58:45 am
Hi there,
As we all know, CS3 includes a cool new time-remapping feature. The presence of this new feature might suggest that PPro CS3's handling of interlaced video has been improved. So my question is: does CS3 now include an "intelligent" de-interlacing system which uses motion compensation to interpolate the missing vertical resolution (like many of the de-interlace filters used in aviSynth)? Or does de-interlacing in PPro CS3 still halve your vertical resolution?
Re: PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%? by Jack Kelly on Jul 13, 2007 at 7:18:04 pm
Hi Blast1,
If I may be so bold, I'd like to jump in here.
In terms of comparing PPro's de-interlacing with other systems, I've just spent the day comparing PPro 2.0's de-interlacing with aviSynth's de-interlacing:
Re: PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%? by Blast1 on Jul 14, 2007 at 10:01:55 pm
[Tim Kolb]"compare CS3 and Resizer" Thats what I was wondering if someone had done, I've seen a comparison between Instand HD and Resizer1 with footage deinterlaced in AFX, they were fairly close, since Resizer 2 is shipping with its own deinterlacer I was curious if the one in CS3 was as good.
Re: PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%? by dixie.fever on Jul 18, 2007 at 7:15:04 am
Why wouldn't you touch it?
I thought of giving the demo a try, I would really love a good deinterlacer that works as a PP 2.0 plugin and not as standalone or via avisynth. Are there any other alternatives?
Re: PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%? by Jack Kelly on Jul 18, 2007 at 2:29:07 pm
Oooh, thanks for the heads-up on that Alparysoft plug-in. That looks interesting - I might give it a shot later this afternoon.
The blurb seems to suggest that it does some clever motion compensation.
Regarding whether or not it's safe to download Russian software - I understand that a lot of spam and viruses come from Russian computer users but I'd suggest that it's a little far-fetched to suggest that you shouldn't touch any code written by Russians! Besides, you shouldn't need to worry too much about viruses and malware if you're properly protected.
Re: PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%? by Jack Kelly on Jul 18, 2007 at 4:13:24 pm
Hi,
I've just been tinkering with Alparysoft's de-interlace plug-in for PPro. Some notes:
1) It does seem to do a good job at de-interlacing PAL 50i standard definition DV. It's single-threaded though (so it doesn't make use of multiple processor cores).
2) I can't get it to work with HD content. I've tried HDV .mpeg files and Cineform files. This is a deal-breaker for me. I need it to work with HD.
Re: PPro CS3 deinterlacing - does it still drop vertical res by 50%? by Blast1 on Jul 19, 2007 at 8:09:23 pm
[Jack Kelly]"Regarding whether or not it's safe to download Russian software - I understand that a lot of spam and viruses come from Russian computer users but I'd suggest that it's a little far-fetched to suggest that you shouldn't touch any code written by Russians! Besides, you shouldn't need to worry too much about viruses and malware if you're properly protected."
Viruses and malware are just part of it, there is also spoofing of commerce servers, etc., I don't have time or inclination to verify these, just as there certain sections of cities you avoid if you are prudent, same goes for the internet
