Interlacing problems on graphics

I have a 1920x1080i ProRes project where I get interlacing lines on the graphics. I have screencapture video generated with iShowU and stills with text from Photoshop. Both with lines after export from FCP. Is there any way to avoid this?

In FCP, change the field dominance to None in Sequence > Settings.
Deinterlacing throws away half of your vertical resolution.
Note that a computer monitor cannot display interlaced video formats correctly. They are intended to be displayed on televisions. Depending on where the finished project is intended to be seen it might in your interest to keep the interlaced video as it is.

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TV Shows - Interlacing Problems

I've had this problem since before iTunes 7.
Whenever I play TV Shows I purchased off iTunes I see what I believe is called an interlacing problem. For example, when I watch mouths (whatever in the scene moves continuously) in The Avatar I see what I can best describe as horizontal lines that don't line up correctly making part of the moving image looks our of place.
Of course I am using a 21' Widescreen Dell LCD so maybe that has something to do with it. Also I have an ATI 850XL 256MB graphics card. If anyone has any suggestions, or knows why it may be doing this please reply.

You have to contact iTunes customer support.
They'll give you a new download or credit your account.

Interlace problems with moving objects using iDVD

I had an MP4 file (created by a 3rd party) from a Hi-8 analog tape which has some interlace artifacts on moving images (left image of boy) but not too bad. When the MP4 files was imported into iMovie 11 the interlace artifacts smoothed somewhat - that was OK (right image of boy). The camera was still and the boy was moving. Vertical lines on stationary objects are OK in all images. These are screen captures from the Mac of the mp4 played through quicktime and the same file imported into iMovie 11 and played. I paused both to take the screen capture.
The completed project in iMovie 11 looked OK when previewed prior to rendering. These are 20 year old videos so my expections were being met.   I rendered the project with iDVD to the hard drive first and then to a DVD with the same poor imaging result on the moving object. I am using a new Macbook Pro I bought in early January which came with iMovie 11 and iDVD Ver 7.1.2 (1158). Running Mac OS X 10.7.3 Macbook Pro 2.3 Ghz Corei7   8GB 1333 Mhz DDR3.
I couldn't screen capture from the MAC DVD player screen to illustrate the poor result (got a checkerboard screen) so I took a photo of the screen and imported that (below). The moving boy on the left is from an iMovie 11 screen capture, the image on the right is the moving boy from the rendered DVD I paused on the Mac (and took a pic of).
Below a close up of the poorly rendered moving boy viewed on the resultant DVD. This translates into a horrible rendition of any quick moving object. It happens with any moving image - i.e. a pan across a room with straight vertical lines like edges of a wall will show as serrated and poorly rendered edge. I used a trial version of the Daniusoft DVD creator with the same result! I am at a loss on how to resolve this issue. Any thoughts out there??
I had previously used Pinnacle Studios on my old XP PC which worked great on other tape's Mpeg files and created great DVD's (never had an interlace problem) ... until my computer died ..... so I figured Apple and associated software should be at least equal if not a superior product.   Now I'm not too sure!

I had an MP4 file (created by a 3rd party) from a Hi-8 analog tape which has some interlace artifacts on moving images (left image of boy) but not too bad. When the MP4 files was imported into iMovie 11 the interlace artifacts smoothed somewhat - that was OK (right image of boy). The camera was still and the boy was moving. Vertical lines on stationary objects are OK in all images. These are screen captures from the Mac of the mp4 played through quicktime and the same file imported into iMovie 11 and played. I paused both to take the screen capture.
The completed project in iMovie 11 looked OK when previewed prior to rendering. These are 20 year old videos so my expections were being met.   I rendered the project with iDVD to the hard drive first and then to a DVD with the same poor imaging result on the moving object. I am using a new Macbook Pro I bought in early January which came with iMovie 11 and iDVD Ver 7.1.2 (1158). Running Mac OS X 10.7.3 Macbook Pro 2.3 Ghz Corei7   8GB 1333 Mhz DDR3.
I couldn't screen capture from the MAC DVD player screen to illustrate the poor result (got a checkerboard screen) so I took a photo of the screen and imported that (below). The moving boy on the left is from an iMovie 11 screen capture, the image on the right is the moving boy from the rendered DVD I paused on the Mac (and took a pic of).
Below a close up of the poorly rendered moving boy viewed on the resultant DVD. This translates into a horrible rendition of any quick moving object. It happens with any moving image - i.e. a pan across a room with straight vertical lines like edges of a wall will show as serrated and poorly rendered edge. I used a trial version of the Daniusoft DVD creator with the same result! I am at a loss on how to resolve this issue. Any thoughts out there??
I had previously used Pinnacle Studios on my old XP PC which worked great on other tape's Mpeg files and created great DVD's (never had an interlace problem) ... until my computer died ..... so I figured Apple and associated software should be at least equal if not a superior product.   Now I'm not too sure!

Indesign CS5 crash during startup - problem with Graphics.rpln

I work in an architectural company and already several of our computers have experienced this very rare and unusual behaviour. During start up of Indesign (not clicking on any file but just launching Indesign) it crashes with the following error:
"Adobe Indesign CS5 has stopped working"
We use Windows 7 64bit, so the first step I did - I went into Application Log which says, so appears to be a problem with Graphics.rpln.
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Fault bucket 1848500921, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
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P2: 7.0.0.355
P3: 4bad00be
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P5: 7.0.0.355
P6: 4bad03d3
P7: c0000005
P8: 0004e1e2
P9:
P10:
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C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\WER162E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
These files may be available here:
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_InDesign.exe_b042 ec9a818cb8fb57eefe0aacb41c22fdcbb8_10c12aa8
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 9e59fc2c-5b68-11e3-908c-f46d0497fc9b
Report Status: 0
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None of the other apps like Photoshop or Illustrator CS5 malfunction - only Indesign. What is going on?
Can it conflict with other software we use? We have Bentley Microstation, 3D Max, Office 2010, Kaspersky Antivirus and LOGMEIN installed on this computer...Any clues, guys?

Looks to me like you've never installed any of the patches. Last patch for CS5 was 7.0.4, so I'd start with that and see if ti helps.

Interlace problem with psd. logo.......

I added a small logo to my project. It is a psd file and it has tearing or interlace problems.
I tried to add a de-interlace filter on it---didt'n work
I added a gaussian blur to it and it didn't look good.
What is the right way to correct the interlace issue?
Thanks

Where are you rendering? If in FCP, click on the clip in the timeline, type ⌘9 and change the Field Dominance to None.
Patrick

Interlace problem or compression artifact?

Premiere 6.5
XP sp2
Quad-core 266
4 Gb RAM
7200 rpm SATA HDD for video projects
I am working on a volunteer project for a local museum wherein some old VHS tapes need to be digitized. The final video (probably MPEG-2) will be accessible from research computers at the museum. File size is not a big issue, but preserving as much quality (such as it is) from the 10+ year old VHS (not SVHS) tapes is essential.
So I feed the analog output from my tape deck to my Sony TVR310 camcorder for A/D conversion, then capture from there to my PC via firewire. I have tried capturing via the software that came with my Edius (a.k.a. Canopus) card, and also directly into Premiere. Same thing happens both times.
On the exported video (AVI, MPG1, MPG2) I see these wavy edges on the left and right sides of high-contrast areas. See the guy's hat in the attached image (if it ever gets outa the queu). Does this look like a compression artifact? Or is it an interlace problem? I do not see this effect when I watch the original video on my TV.
Note that Premiere reports the average data rate for the 720x480 @ 29.97 fps clip as 3600 kb/s. So when I export to MPEG I set the data rate at 5000 kb/s.
When I process and export the video in Premiere, I have "no fields" selected everywhere, and for the actual export I have selected the "de-interlace" option. Since this is for viewing on computers only, I figured that was the correct thing to do.
Edited: I should also mention that I do not see this effect in the monitor window when I scrub the clip on the timeline.
Dan Heim

The first time I tried with the capture settings reset to LFF, and then tried to export (as uncompressed AVI), specifying "no fields" in the "keyframe and rendering" dialog box, and selecting "deinterlace" in the "special processing" dialog box, I still got those artifacts.
THEN ... after searching the help file for "deinterlace" and reading all the linked pages, I tried right-clicking on the clip on the timeline, went to "video options" / "field options" and selected "always deinterlace." Had to re-render on the timeline. Then, after exporting same as before, the artifacts were finally gone.
So you were correct about it being an interlacing issue. Thanks for the insight! GSpot now reports the exported video as 29.97 frames and 0 fields.
Here's a puzzle though ... I tried the same thing with the original clip (the one captured as progressive instead of LFF) and it smoothed out as well. Perhaps Premiere is smart enough to recognize what it's getting for input, and ignores stupid commands? Whatever, this means I can use my original footage and not have to recapture 1.5 hours of video.
Dan Heim

Unusual interlacing problem

Greetings,
I recently shot a short 16mm film and got it telecined to DV NTSC with timecode/keycode window-burn. I imported the flex file I got from the lab into a Cinema Tools 4 database, then exported a batch capture list, and captured the footage into FCP 6. Everything seemed to have worked correctly, with the window-burn on the video matching the timecode and keycode information in CT. HOWEVER, when viewing the footage in the CT window, certain frames have interlacing problems. The pattern is:
A2, B2, C1, D1, D3
For every frame, the last number on the burned-in timecode is a bit fuzzy, but for every C1 and D1 the last number on the timecode and the last two numbers on the keycode are barely legible. C1 and D1 are also the two frames when the video image has an interlaced look to it.
And this is happening BEFORE I have even tried to reverse telecine! The footage has none of these problems when viewing on FCP and the original quicktime videos look fine as well. It is only in the CT window that I get this problem.. I am planning on eventually getting the negative conformed from an EDL list, and am worried this problem might be a sign of some sort of discrepancy between the film negative and the Cinema Tools database.
The info I entered into the database initially was TK Speed: 24 and TC Rate: 30 NDF, but have tried experimenting with different variations, none of which fixed the problem. ALSO, when I went ahead and reverse telecined the clips with CT, it took out every D1 frame correctly, but the interlacing and illegible numbers problem persisted. When I connected the new reverse telecined clip into FCP, the problem was still there. But when I checked the new reverse telecined clip quicktime file, everything looked perfect, without the interlaced look in the image, with completely legible window-burn, and with every D1 removed. So I figure it must be a problem with Cinema Tools!
I apologize for the long post, but I'm a student filmmaker trying desperately to get my senior film together and avoid possibly costly and time-consuming mistakes down the road. Any thoughts/ advice would be greatly, greatly, appreciated!
Thanks,
Zachary

Greetings,
I recently shot a short 16mm film and got it telecined to DV NTSC with timecode/keycode window-burn. I imported the flex file I got from the lab into a Cinema Tools 4 database, then exported a batch capture list, and captured the footage into FCP 6. Everything seemed to have worked correctly, with the window-burn on the video matching the timecode and keycode information in CT. HOWEVER, when viewing the footage in the CT window, certain frames have interlacing problems. The pattern is:
A2, B2, C1, D1, D3
For every frame, the last number on the burned-in timecode is a bit fuzzy, but for every C1 and D1 the last number on the timecode and the last two numbers on the keycode are barely legible. C1 and D1 are also the two frames when the video image has an interlaced look to it.
And this is happening BEFORE I have even tried to reverse telecine! The footage has none of these problems when viewing on FCP and the original quicktime videos look fine as well. It is only in the CT window that I get this problem.. I am planning on eventually getting the negative conformed from an EDL list, and am worried this problem might be a sign of some sort of discrepancy between the film negative and the Cinema Tools database.
The info I entered into the database initially was TK Speed: 24 and TC Rate: 30 NDF, but have tried experimenting with different variations, none of which fixed the problem. ALSO, when I went ahead and reverse telecined the clips with CT, it took out every D1 frame correctly, but the interlacing and illegible numbers problem persisted. When I connected the new reverse telecined clip into FCP, the problem was still there. But when I checked the new reverse telecined clip quicktime file, everything looked perfect, without the interlaced look in the image, with completely legible window-burn, and with every D1 removed. So I figure it must be a problem with Cinema Tools!
I apologize for the long post, but I'm a student filmmaker trying desperately to get my senior film together and avoid possibly costly and time-consuming mistakes down the road. Any thoughts/ advice would be greatly, greatly, appreciated!
Thanks,
Zachary

Quicktime interlace problem with 1080i format ?

I imported many video in 1080i format using Final Cut Pro, and when I play back them from quicktime I've got interlace problem. How can I have my video played back correctly ?

And you are monitoring...how? Computer displays don't show interlacing properly, so you won't see it right. Only an external monitor that is capable of displaying interlacing will show you how things really look.
Shane

I am facing problem regarding graphical user interface. I am using text box for editing files. I want to show the line numbers and graphical breakpoints along with text box. Can anybody help me in this? Thanks.

I am facing problem regarding graphical user interface. I am using text box for editing files. I want to show the line numbers and graphical breakpoints along with text box. Can anybody help me in this? Thanks.

Thanks for you reply.
But actually I don't want to show the \ (backslashes) to the user in my text box.
Ok let me elaborate this problem little more.
I want to show my text box as it is in normal editors e.g. In Matlab editor. There is a text box and on left side the gray bar shows the line numbers corresponding to the text. Further more i want that the user should be able to click on any line number to mark specific line as breakpoint (red circle or any graphical indication for mark).
Regards,
Waqas Ahmad

Converted MP4 to DV now I have an interlaced problem that I cant fix

Using Quick time Conversion I converted a MP4 movie to DV for editing in FCP, after which I have a bad interlacing problem. I used the Effect de-interlace and all of its drop down options with no change. I also changed the field dominance from None to Upper and Lower with still no changes. Should I convert to another format initially instead of DV, or is there a fix I am just not seeing.
Thanks for your Help

No, sorry there is only one (streamclip).
Can you describe what the problem looks like. Do moving objects appear to stagger back as they move across the screen (field reversal), or do you have a really bad shimmer? If your picture is shimmering try using a Gaussian Blur at a setting of 0.5 or so, this will add a slight but not too bad blur that masks the flickering of thin lines much like the flicker filter.
If object moving across the screen appear to jerk erratically I'd check the frame rate of the MP4 is the same as your timebase (25/30fps).

Frame rate issue and interlacing problems

i am going to close a project created from others and when exported the final at source setting, 422 pro I ve got I guess some interlacing problem, horizontal lines.the project had this problems, clips at 29,97 but project is at 25 i
now considering that final target is a standard DVD and project is in 1080, what is the best way to export and to solve this issue? sending project to Compressor and there using the slowest and the best setting for dvd's?

There may not be a problem with your project if delivery is DVD. Computers do not display interlaced at all well. Output to DVD and test with a DVD player>TV. It should be fine.
Russ

Interlacing Problems - Someone please help... on deadline- thanks!

Hi- I have a bunch of NTSC 1080i60 footage that says it's field dominance is upper (odd).
I've place them in a sequence and let the sequence conform to the clip, so it has the same settings.
I'm aiming to burn a dvd so I send it to Compressor and use the "DVD: Best Quality" preset. Then when the m2v is done and I play it in DVDSP or burn it to a DVD and play it on TV I'm getting what looks like an interlacing problem.
What am I doing wrong? I realize also that it won't look as sharp as a m2v, but how can I make it look the best?
Looking at the video settings in Compressor>Inspector>Video Format, I see that the field dominance is set to Top First!?! Perhaps this is the problem... should I change it to Progressive???
Bottom line is A) how do I get rid of the interlacing problem without making it fuzzy and B) what are the best settings I should use to get the sharpest looking DVD possible.
Thanks so much

Hello Robert.
I just did the same thing. I found out that you need to mess with the frame controls to get the best results.
In the Encoder tab, I set the following:
In the video format, I select "Progressive" for the field dominance
In the quality tab, I use 2 pass VBR, with the default bitrates. I set the motion estimation to "better"
In the Frame Controls tab, I set the following:
Enable frame controls.
Select Progressive in the Output Fields drop box.
I have Resize Filter, Deinterlace, and Rate Conversion all set to "Better"
I leave adaptive details checked, although most in this forum that I have seen recommend unchecking that. I tried a bunch with and without, and couldn't tell a difference in render times.
I have anti-aliasing set to 10.
This gives me the best combination of picture quality and render times.
Using these settings, with an 8 core cluster setup, it took 17 hours to render a 40 min video.
Good luck, and happy rendering!
Ken

Interlacing problems

I have had some old Std 8 and Super 8 family films professionally transferred to DVDs and am now trying to edit them in iMovie 09. Following Appleman1958's suggestion using MPEG QT Component and MPEG Sreamclip I have edited them successfully but the output DVD when played on a TV is dramatically full of 'combing' on moving images (interlacing problem?). I would be very grateful if anyone could suggest how I could resolve this problem.

Try this:
As you are converting them in MPEG Streamclip,
1. File/Export Using QuickTime
2. For Compression, choose Apple Intermediate Codec
3. Uncheck the box that says interlaced scaling
4. Check the box that says Deinterlace Video
5. In "Field Dominance" choose "Upper Field First"
6. Click "Make Movie".

AVCHD interlacing problems

I'm having problems importing AVCHD clips from a panasonic HDC SD5 to my iMac. The interlacing has gone wrong recently, irrespective of how I import, direct to iMovie, via converter software, or direct to Adobe premier elements. I can't work out how to fix it. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Donald
Continuing from my post 5 where I went through some introductory troubleshooting to profile your interlace issue and possibly find a way to "fix" some of what you already have.....and I am still looking forward to your results from those suggestions.
However, I did want to make some comments about your general description of your situation
1. You wrote
The AVCHD clips on the camcorder at the moment are OK on the camera and when plugged directly from the camera into a Panasonic smart TV
If your camera is set to record interlaced video, then I would consider that result as "not surprising" since the Panasonic Smart TV would be expected to be doing a good job of deinterlacing the interlaced footage for viewing.
2. However, the next part is the challenge
But, no matter how I try to import them onto the iMac, I get interlacing problems when I view them prior to editing. It's the same in Quicktime, iMovie, Adobe and some other converters I have toyed with recently as alternatives to Aunsoft.
Can we interpret that to mean that use of Aunsoft as a video converter did not result in this type of issue? If so, please read on.
Not all interlaced footage would be expected to exhibit the same degree of interlacing issues from camera to camera - too many variable in the 2 fields that make up the frame and what is being recorded. So, one possibility is that you are shooting video with more action and lines than before. However, what I would like you to consider after you get through post 5 questions...
You seem to be saying interlaced problems unless you use Aunsoft as your converter. If that is correct, please read on.
Please take the Aunsoft generated file that is heading for Premiere Elements and run it through MediaInfo, a free video audio properties readout program.
MediaInfo | SourceForge.net
and inspect its video properties in the tree view. What does it say for scan type? I am suspecting it will show Progressive which would explain why
the interlaced problems with programs that are looking at your non Aunsoft video as interlaced. Premiere Elements importing is not going to deinterlace your video. There are opportunities for that at the Timeline level of the program as I have eluded to in post 5 and also in the export choice.
Please review and consider.
Thank you.
ATR

Another interlace problem?

I am editing 2 thesis films for school, and wasnt the one to capture the footage. It was shot on the cannon xl2 but im pretty sure it wasnt advanced, it was just regular 24p. Nobody in class has been able to figure out why some shots (when there is movement) seem to have this interlacing problem. Horizontal lines on all the edges of objects. I know there are other threads on this but i didnt find the answer in them. I cant recapture all this footage, just don't have time. If 24p is captured at 29.97 does this happen? Should my editing timebase be 23.97? I feel like an idiot not being able to figure this out. Oh it looks fine when its playing from the timeline, its only bad when exported. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I did the reading, and understand what timebase I am editing in, and what framerate the clips were recorded and captured in. They all seem to be correct. Maybe interlacing was the wrong term. When a quicktime file is exported, upon viewing, horizontal stripes are seen whenever there is motion in the frame. I know that it should not look like that. The footage was recorded 24p captured 29.97 and editied 29.97. Your feedback was good information for me but has not solved the problem. I did try converting a file with cinema tools earlier and it really screwed up my sequence, so I abandoned that alltogether. I also gave up on that because i now know that it should stay 29.97.

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