Should I be deinterlacing?

Hello All,
I've had some old 8mm movie film transferred. It was transferred at 18fps and was shot (transferred) on SD digital video onto a miniDV tape. When I'm editing this footage it has lots of jaggies on my iMac screen.
I'm putting this footage onto DVD that is going to be distributed to some family and friends. So if I've got this correct I don't need to deinterlace this footage if it's going onto a DVD and shown on a CRT television, but there may be family members that have DLP, Plasma, LED TV sets. If I'm understaning this correctly all those newer style TVs shown progressive pictures. So should the video be deinterlaced for them or does the newer style TV sets figure that out and show it correctly?
If I'm putting this footage onto a DVD for viewing on TV sets is there ever a time when I need to deinterlace?
Thanks for your help.
Mike

Progressive video may appear choppy and maybe distorted on a CRT tv set.
When I'm editing this footage it has lots of jaggies on my iMac screen.
Ideally, this should not happen, do your sequence settings match your clip ones? How does the video (the captured one) look when played in quick time?
So should the video be deinterlaced for them or does the newer style TV sets figure that out and show it correctly?
Most DVD players and, I would dare say, all contemporary TV sets take care of deinterlacing themselves. No need to worry (at least much).

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Alright, I just tested it.
Here is what I found.
I had an HDV file with a really "bad" pan in it where I quickly swept from one subject to another. I put no effects or anything on it.
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NTSC
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Bit Rate: CBR, 8 Mbps
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The UFF seemed a bit more accurate. The fields spanned from top to bottom, with no "jiggling" at top OR bottom.
I went to the middle of a quick pan, and put matching frames from both files on top of one another, then quickly went back and forth to compare differences.
The LFF file seemed to have some "mushing" in the quick pans. As if someone went in there and kind of rubbed out some of the detail. The UFF still appeared sharp, and still had very concice interlaced stepping all the way through.
Therefore, on a screen, I saw NO difference. But in Premiere, comparing both, it seems that going UFF is a bit sharper and a bit more technically accurate.
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Hey there everyone.
*Newbie to HD editing alert.
I have two problems regarding HD editing/export.
I've been scouring the forums for several days, and I can't find a specific answer to what I need/want to know. Some things are understandable to a degree, and then there are things that seem way over my head.
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I wanted to run a test of burning a Blu-Ray of this project's raw footage, to see how the workflow would go after I've edited the wedding.
When I go to Export my timeline to Encore, on the Encoding Settings area, it seems to only let me use the Preset of NTSC Widescreen, with a 720x480 video. I don't see anywhere where it mentions that this project will be HD (which I thought would keep my 1440x1080 dimensions on export).
The Format and Range areas are greyed out; and I can only choose a few things off the Preset dropdown.
Am I missing a step? Or is this what will be exported, but once in Encore, it will be able to burn correctly on Blu-ray?
Again, please excuse my naivety in understanding and/or mis-speaking my problem.
Also on the Export Settings window, on the Output tab - should I check off 'Deinterlace' also? I've read and read about Interlace and Deinterlace, and I am confused as to "what to use when".
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1. Regarding the 'repetetive audio loop' on one of my clips - what could the problem be there?
Will it export OK? Or should I just recapture that one clip again?
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2B. If I'm supposed to make a file of the timeline:
Am I supposed to be Exporting to Movie instead?
(When I tried that, my settings under 'Video' showed up as a greyed out area for Frame Size, locked at 720x480 wi

Continuation:
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Am I supposed to be Exporting to Movie instead?
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using VBR, 2 Pass;
leaving Target Bitrate default of 32;
and Maximum Bitrate default of 40?;
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3. If I absolutely have to use a third-party program like Cineform, at what point do you use that program? Is this used at the time that you capture the footage, and then import those files into PPCS3? Or is this a program that you use to Export your project when you're done with your editing?
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In my meandering throughout the CS3 forum regarding SD, HD, HDV, etc etc, I have picked up alot of information regarding certain problems and situations. I may have all the info in my head, and I'm just applying it wrong; or, I'm missing something in the mix? I'm not sure what it is, but I seem to be having quite a problem doing what seems to be something that should be 'easy'.
I find this forum extremely helpful and understanding, so I'm looking to you all for help. I would appreciate any and all comments and suggestions!
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Key Frames All (I don't understand Key Frames)
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OK, I'll bite. I don't understand the point of Step 1 - Use Toast to convert from .M2TS to .MOV.
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•footage = 29.97
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Poor Slob

The company gets rid of the editor...the guy who knows how to edit and make the final product look like they want. Why? To save money? Or did they mess up something?
If they did it to save money, because "wow, that guy is pretty expensive, and really, anyone can do this stuff," now you see why not really anyone can do this stuff. This is a highly technical profession that requires a certain skill set and training. And people who know this, should be paid for their knowledge. Because as you see, it isn't all that easy, and there aren't easy buttons for everything. Not really saving money now, because the product doesn't look right, the client isn't happy, and time is ticking.
If they were fired for doing something wrong, or bad...or whatever. Have them hire someone else who knows what to do...ASAP. Because knowing the field dominance of video...which is different for SD and HD...is a skill editors should know.
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2) GoPro shooting h.264 at1920 x 1080 P 30 NTSC according to the camera instructions.
3) Sony SR 12 AVCHD at 1920 x 1080 60i according tho the camera manual.
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Apple don't like this.
The simplet method would be to:
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2) Plug in her iPod
3) iTunes will probably ask if she wants to delete all of her songs and replace them with your library, select NO.
4) Open the iPod in Windows Explorer
5) Simply drag & drop the chosen songs from your library onto the iPod in Explorer.
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Dear all,
I am completely at sea but I know that I have to use the "none" setting for the field order and cannot for the life of me work this out.
Now- I usually export direct from Final Cut Pro (H.264, best quality etc etc) but this time the exported QT file just will not de-interlace (not my footage but I have to deliver the edit), come **** or high water.
So- a kind soul said to use Compressor... And to not use any field ordering.
But HOW? I watched videos, sought to use the instructions given me here but am still totally lost.
What I did:
1. Launched Compressor,
2. Dragged in the self-contained reference QT file from my desktop,
3. Picked a setting (H.264 which has field reordering ON by default),
4. Dropped the "setting" into the blue field to right of clip thumb,
5. Double-clicked the "setting" and then-
6. picked the "Encoder" button, as instructed but cannot change the Field Order.
Because Compressor is completely new to me I don't know if I ought to NOT pick a setting until I have it how I want it, saved it as a "custom setting" and THEN bring it into the project or if I am to do it once brought in to the project. Either way- how to change the field order to "none". Or should I pick a de-interlace filter? Just that I have been looking and testing and nothing I do creates a de-interlaced final file.
All the tutorial videos I have watched (erm- about 5 now) go over exporting and how to pick your settings from those which exist but what I need to know is how to change a setting to suit (ie get rid of the evil interlacing).
I am hoping someone here can give me a very simple step by step or point me in the direction of one.

Let me see if I can wrap my head around what you're trying to do. You started with an HD timeline 1280 x 720 (16:9). Into this you want to add your SD PAL clips, shrunk down for a picture in picture effect (a completely different concept from multicam.) But your shrunk down clips have nasty interlacing, and the one clip which was meant to be full frame looks like rubbish, right? Sorry but there's no way to blow a clip up 180% and have it look even halfway decent. At least not in FCP. Compressor has an upscale algorithm, available in the same Frame Controls tab where you did the de-interlacing, which can give you somewhat better results. There's also a plug-in from Red Giant called Instant HD which may or may not yield better results than Compressor.
Here's where you went wrong. The clips to be shrunk should have been deinterlaced before bringing them into FCP, and into your sequence. Go ahead and do this, using the ProRes 422 setting, with the deinterlacing technique from before.
Your sequence in FCP is fine, except that you want to change its compressor to ProRes 422 so that it matches your newly imported de-interlaced clips.
You want to de-interlace your P2 1080i clips beforehand as well. The other change to make to your sequence is to change Field Dominance to None.
If you've already finished your edit, you can still do all of the de-interlacing, outputting all of the results to a new folder. But you have to do every source clip in its entirety if you want to re-link to retain your edit.
When Compressor's done - this will probably take all night - open your FCP project, select all the source clips, right-click and choose Reconnect Media. Locate the newly de-interlaced ProRes clips and Connect.
Then you only need to export your sequence as a Quicktime Movie, Current Settings, Self-contained. This will give you a pristine master which will play fine on your computer, and from which you may then use Compressor to create a web or dvd version as needed.

Major Rendering Problems! Help?!

Hey guys!
I'm working on completing a project and I'm having major issues with rendering. I've got three menus, all of which are animated by a 1920x1080 MPEG2 and supported by .WAV files for audio. Everytime I go to render the menu files, it does a myriad of unhelpful things:
- "not enough memory" - and it goes on to say something about quickly saving... but nothing else happens besides not finishing rendering
- it just completely stops rendering altogether on one frame (usually frame 811 of menu 1) - which is the most common problem
- "not enough thread resources".... which I found meant that the filepaths were too long so I fixed that
- "file exists" - which I promptly go to manually delete the cache files
I've tried everything... from re-exporting my motion videos to different outputs (.avi as well), to clearing cache, to restarting, to renaming my files, etc. etc.
I feel like I'm going crazy. Can anyone please help? Pretty please?
It would be greatly appreciated...
- Alex
[email protected]

Unless you are working with 24p footage, your mpeg2 stream WILL be interlaced, even if you shot in progressive.
If you shot progressive (30p), then you don't have to deinterlace. When Encore transcodes, it will create an interlaced stream, but you won't see any interlace artifacts because each field will represent the same frame.
If you shot interlaced 60i, you can deinterlace before transcoding (such as when you exporting it from your editing app), and this will cause the same effect of the 30p footage, though with slightly less clarity of native 30p footage.
30p does not look quite as fluid as 60i, so if you want to maintain the same look as the source footage, you should not be deinterlacing. You will see interlacing artifacts in Encore, but on a TV it will look normal.
If for some reason the fields got reversed (such as going from HDV upper field first to SD lower field first) then you will get serious interlacing problems during playback. You should never reverse the fields, so if you are going from HDV TFF, to SD, you should keep the fields TFF (top field first). This is very important.

Should I deinterlace video for a powerPoint presentation

Hello:
So while we are getting the bugs out of my agony render issue I have another question.
I have to make Windows Media Files from FCP/Quicktime movies for insertion into PowerPoint.
Should I deinterlace the Windows Media Files for playback in PowerPoint? The Windows Media Files will be on the desktop of a PC laptop.
And yes I know Windows Media *****... but I have had too many fights trying to get anything else to work in PowerPoint (espcially when it has to work on both macs and pcs)
Thanks

Adrian,
If I'm not mistaken, you will get better results if you deinterlace your video when you encode, IF your source was in a DV/DV50 timeline, or anything where there is a lower or upper field dominance (check your sequence settings.) If you happen to have shot in any progressive format, then no, you don't have to deinterlace.
Now, the tricky thing is, you'll need the flip4mac plug-in to allow you to encode windows media files. In the advanced tab of your video settings in the flip4mac encoding window, look down at the bottom in the Frame Format input type to change the input type from "Progressive" to "Interlace - Lower field first" and then the output type needs to be "Progressive." This will deinterlace your footage.
Now, one thing you mention, is that this powerpoint needs to work on PCs and Macs. With windows media, you should be all clear on the PC side, but any newer mac will have to go and download the free flip4mac plugin, or windows media player for mac to be able to play it - a free download, but it will still require an internet connection, and the time to do that.
Hope that helps,
Chris

When should I deinterlace my footage?

Found an article today on www.dvcreators.net/ about de-interlacing called mice teeth!
http://www.dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/
I export my video out as Quicktime PAL and audio out as aiff, then use compressor to encode as MV2 and ac3 for DVD studio pro... all work great for me!
So how and when should i de-interlace it? What are the advantages in de-interlacing?
is there a preset for this in Compressor?

If you are going out to DVD there is absolutely NO reason to de-interlace.
It's the other way around, de-interlacing will unsharp the image (better or worse depending on the way you do it), and the image will look more stuttery.
(as you do not have 50 different images anymore, just 25)
Most playback of DVD is done on interlaced displays. If not, the display should take care of it. (Like normal software DVD players do)
Bouke

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