Change interlaced video to progressive scan video

I would like to know how I can Change interlaced video to progressive scan video, in FCP.

if you have Final Cut Studio, you can export to Compressor 2 and do your deinterlacing there for higher quality results. it will take much, much longer though.
the settings that have worked best for me are setting the frame controls to "custom" and then:
resizing: fast
output: progressive
deinterlace: best (motion compensated)
check adaptive details
set anti-alias and details levels to 50
rate conversion: best (high quality motion compensation)

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Can you convert Interlaced video to Progressive?

Does anyone know if there is a way to simply convert interlaced video to progressive video? I don't have Apple Compressor, and don't know of any other way to convert interlaced to progressive. Any ideas?

I am clearly not the best person to answer this question...but.
Depending on why you want to change interlaced to progressive, there are several ways to approach this.
There is 3rd party software like the previous offered, and a few others, but if you are simply going to upload to the web or show it on other computers I would just export the movie in a progressive format, using export> Quicktime Conversion. Then select the settings you would like to use.
Hope this helps.

Importing and handling progressive (non-interlaced) video...

Hi, have searched around and can't quite find the answer to my problem so I hope somebody can help...
Ive recently aquired a Sony TRV 900 (3ccd) which has a progressive shooting option. Apart from a strange semi-strobing effect on that sometimes occurson fast moving objects this option generally seems fine in good light.
I can import into Final Cut Express (v1) ok, and when I view the clip frame by frame (with the arrow keys) every single frame is clear, crisp, free of jaggies etc.
As soon as I play it back (either as a clip or in a sequence) it appears to be lower quality somehow and there is lots of nasty aliasing or jaggies. Pausing restores the image quality back to normal.
Ive messed with various options available when putting the browser into list view. (PAL or square ratios etc). Even tried exporting a final cut express movie, to view in Quicktime but the quality never matches that of a frame by frame playback in FCE. The exported versions if viewed frame by frame lack also lack the higher quality.
I cannot find any sort of interlace or field options during the import stage but as my 'stills' are great I assume it's either the preview playback or the rendered export at fault,but it's driving me pretty crazy! lol
Even though footage may end up on a dvd at some point (ie. interlaced, right?), I would still like progressive versions to create web versions etc.
Am I completely missing the point here or something?
Hope somebody is able to shed a little light here for me?!
Thanks in advance...

As far as i know, Final Cut Express (at least the version i've used which is version 2) assumes you are working with interlaced video and that is that. In Final Cut Pro there is the option to work with progressive footage, but i think FCE just assumes you are using interlaced, and doesn't allow you to change that.
The way you are describing it, it does sound like it is playing progressive footage when in an interlaced mode. A similar thing happens when you play interlaced footage in a progressive mode. It looks absolutely fine when you look at a single frame, but once playing it has lines and artifacts around edges.
I'm not sure if there's anything you can do about that. I'd like to be wrong though.

Interpret interlaced video with 2:2 telecine pulldown as true progressive?

Hope my title makes sense. Not sure how well I will be able to explain.
We have interlaced video files from film telecine. The telecine transfer were made at 25fps as the machines are PAL and this allows us to capture each descrete film frame within the 2 interlaced video fields. I believe this is called 2:2 pulldown. 2 fields for every film frame. The film is captured to V210 10-bit uncompressed blackmagic .avi files. We have films intended to be played back at anything from 12fps to 25fps. Everything is captured at 25fps as the only other available speed is 16 2/3rds fps which creates duplicated fields (3:2) and only works for 16fps content.
So, even though the video file is interlaced (top field first) by combining the fields you get a progressive film frame. Is there anyway to tell Premiere to interpet this footage as progressive without dumping half the fields? As far as I am aware if I work with a progressive sequence or interpret the footage as progressive Premiere will retain the dominant fields and interpolate the rest. I understand this for interlaced content where each field is from a different temporall moment but we actually have the ptrogressive frames just stored as 2 fields.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Message was edited by: mojibake

Premiere Pro will automatically interpret footage that is shot as progressive-as-interlaced, like 25p or 30p, but that (to my knowledge) only works correctly with footage that is from a camcorder. That's because the file is flagged in such a manner that Premiere Pro knows to put the interlaced fields in the correct order for progressive display. I work with 480/30p and 1080/30p footage (which are both interlaced as shot) frequently, and Premiere Pro does things correctly there.
However, I think it will be a different matter in your case, unless the captures are being flagged as they are created. What does Premiere Pro say that the clips' field order (or lack thereof) is when imported? As you've surmised, if this isn't the case, telling Premiere Pro to interpret the footage as progressive is likely going to result in some unwanted artifacts. You could probably test this by importing two instances of your clip, interpreting one as progressive, and then placing them in a progressive sequence (one on top of the other) and toggling visibility between the tracks. You should quickly see if it's having the desired effect or... something else. Instinct tells me that Premiere Pro won't handle this correctly, however.
This might be a job for After Effects, which is a certain degree smarter and more capable of interpreting such things. I'm not exactly sure how to handle it there, but the After Effects forum might be the best place to ask.

Interlaced video flicker question

Hi,
I recently worked on a DVD project using the complete Final Cut Studio and authored using DVD SP 4. There was a problem with the finished video that I could never quite clear up. I shoot using MiniDV and edit on Final Cut, then encode my video using Quicktime Pro. Well, my finished disc looked amazing. However, I noticed when I moved my camera if the subject was wearing red (or any red in the picture for that matter) there would be some interlaced flicker around the edges of the red color (it also occured around the edge of a few other colors, but mainly red and only when my camera moved). I'm just curious if anyone has encountered this and if they can offer any help to correct it.
Should I have my FCP timeline set for progressive scan? Is there a way to set a SD NTSC video project to progressive scan?
Thanks, Jason

Sounds more like a colour saturation issue... reds are very prone to 'bleeding' around the edges...
You should use the vectorscope in FCP to check all your colour levels are safe. Red is especially problematic.

HELP - Interlaced video playback stuttering!!

Hi all,
I'm having problems with Quicktime playback of Interlaced video. For testing purposes, I'm playing back a PAL 20 second h.264 clip on a secondary display attached to my MacBookPro with the Apple DVI-S-Video adaptor (set to 720x576 interlaced PAL 50Hz).
When I play the clip, it stutters/flickers (almost like the fields are inverted?).. If I pause then play the movie repeatedly (i.e : stop/start with the spacebar) the problem seems to rectify itself for a few minutes and everything runs smoothly, then it happens again, until I pause/play again.
I'm on Leopard with the latest updates.. I desperately need to find a fix for this ASAP as I have a tradeshow install in a couple of days time.. Any help would me most appreciated.
Thx

I've never tried how well interlaced material transfers from the Mac directly to an interlaced TV...
But I do know that feeding interlaced .dv from iMovie (in passthrough-to-camcorder mode) via FW a a TV is fine. Or burn it to avideo-DVD via iDVD and use a standalone DVD player to present it.
Maybe H.264 sometimes loses its field sync? Could you use brute force and deinterlace it and live with the less smooth movements of progressive video?

How to export h.264 interlaced video??

hi, my situation is the following: i have a full hd (1920x1080i50) camcorder which gives me just interlaced video clips with 50 half frames per second in AVCHD. i dont want to deinterlace the material, cause it taks too much time, the quality looses and the filesize is doubled (if i want to keep every frame).
i want to cut it with imovie 08 and then export it back into h.264 in interlaced format. (because i want to burn it to a data-dvd and play it in a playstation3. and h.264 is the only full hd format, which the ps3 is able to play, i think).
but in the export preferences i cannot choose between the options "interlaced" or "progressive". and the export with quicktime as h.264 or mpeg-4 is always in progressive mode, ignoring the interlaced material. the result is a progressive video with 25 full frames per second showing 2 half frames mixed together in one frame with the typical "interlaced-lines-error" or in germany we are talking about the "picket-fence-effect". it seemes that imovie does not identyfy the interlaced video automatically.
the imported videos from the camera are definately imported by imovie as interlaced video. i can check it in the quicktime player by turning on the "deinterlace"-option. quicktime playes the video deinterlaced, the "picket-fence-effect" dissapears. if i do it with a exported h.264 videofile from imovie, nothing happens when i turn the "deinterlace"-option on. the "picket-fence-effect" does not dissapear.
today i already loaded the quicktime update, but i still can not export in mpeg4/h264 interlace.
can somebody help me?? i spent already several days with exporting, searching the internet and burning dvd-rs.
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You should give MPEG Streamclip a try:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
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Exported Interlaced Video by SDK Exporter plugin for premiere pro cs6

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In frameBufferP is only progressive frame not intelaced frame
Please advise what should I do in order to get interlaced frame.
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fieldType.value.intValue = prFieldsUpperFirst;
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renderParms.inDeinterlaceQuality =kPrRenderQuality_High;
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Change of Video Frame One Sample Out of Sync with Correct Point on Timeline.
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Move the cursor forwards in time (rightwards) by one sample, so that it overlays the cue marker again. The Time window should change its display back to 00:00:00:01, whilst the Video window remains showing the letter 'A'.
Move the cursor forwards in time (rightwards) by one more sample. The Time window's display should remain at 00:00:00:01, but the Video window should now display the letter 'B'.
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The practical effect of this issue is that it has caused the author a huge amount of extra work on an 89-minute long soundtrack-for-video timeline. There were over 1100 changes of shot which the author wished to mark by placing cue markers at the beginning of every shot. This should have been a quite simple process of enabling 'Snap to Frames', stepping through the video, and laying cue markers down by pressing F8 when the shot was seen to change.
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i that has been placed on the timeline using the 'Snap to Frames' option
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Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP3;
Adobe Audition 1.0 Build 3211.2;
Ad

obe Audition 2.0 Build 5306.2;
Adobe Audition 3.0 Build 7283.0;
ASRock 775dual-VSTA motherboard, BIOS Version P.3.00;
2.80 GHz Intel Pentium D Processor 915 2x2MB L2 Cache;
2GB DDRII 667 RAM;
Matrox G550 DualHead AGPx4 VGA card for Audition's two main work screens;
Matrox Productiva G100 MMS PCI VGA for two additional "static" information screens;
4 x PATA HDDs for OS & programs, swapfile & temp, project file sources, and guide audio;
Onboard Realtek ALC888 7.1 channel audio CODEC with High Definition audio;
Lite-On DVDRW LH-18A1P;
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller.
ASIO4ALL version 2.8;
Via Hyperion Drivers 5.16a - (VIA Chipsets INF Update Utility V3.00A, VIA PATA IDE Driver Package V1.90, VIA SATA IDE Driver Package V2.30A, AGP V4.60A);
Matrox PowerDesk-SE 11.10.400.03;
Matrox Millennium G550 Display Driver Version 5.99.005;
Realtek High Definition Audio System Software Version R1.91, Audio Driver Version 5.10.0.5605;
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I don't know if there is a way to change the video. But I think you can easily use your own videos by using a local .mpg or .3gp file via InputStream. Just change the player's parameters in video/mpg instead of capture://video.
Hope it helps...
Torsten

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When I bring DV PAL footage into my Mac, why are there always very thin black vertical bars on each side? And why is the image being squeezed slightly?
I think it may have something to do with interlacing.
If you look at my screenshot here.
You can see that the top image (QuickTime 7 Player) exhibits the issue I'm talking about (the prescene of combing on the man shows this is interlaced).
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