Deinterlace
by enzo rocket
on
May 25, 2007 at 6:43:21 am
Hi,
hoping someone can help me here. I am currently working on a SD PAL 8bit project in FCP6. We have some live action intercut with some video game footage which was captured onto digibeta and we have now laid this off as 8Bit uncompressed 4:2:2.
The game footage has had to be scaled to 115% in order to acheive full frame height and width...
Being pretty new to this I was wondering if I should deinterlace all the footage in FCP6 using one of the filters or go to color and deinterlace it there and then bring it back into FCP6?
Or do i need to deinterlace it at all?
Is there anyone out there that might be able to shed a little light on this for me and maybe a correct workflow.
Re: Deinterlace by Michael G on May 25, 2007 at 7:44:07 am
The video game footage is probably de-interlaced as it was generated for a computer monitor. There is nothing to gain and plenty of resolution to lose by de-interlacing, depending on how you go about it.
Re: Deinterlace by enzo rocket on May 25, 2007 at 7:49:38 am
Hi, thanks for your reply. the game footage wasnt interlaced when it was captured BUT it has been interlaced during its digi transfer - probably through a capture card. I can definitely see interlacing on it - was worried that if I was scaling it up then the interlace lines would look worse - they seem to view ok when i playback through my FCP timeline...
what would the normal workflow be? leave interlacing alone whereever possible or deinterlace any shots you know your are going to have to scale up etc first or do this on final export?
Re: Deinterlace by rafalaos on May 25, 2007 at 8:04:23 am
As Michael says you don't go to get nothing better by de-interlacing. Just make sure that the field order of your video-game clip is properly set in the FC brownser.
Cheers,
rafael
