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- nosaj
Should progressive footage be converted to interlaced if being used in an interlaced project (ie NTSC SD)? If so, how?
- ********0
- ********0
for FCP or AE? i would see how it plays out on monitor, if it flickers convert it with compressor or MPEG streamclip (free app)
- nosaj0
FCP - I don't get a flicker, but I get little jagged steps (interlacing lines?). It's a TV commercial going to Beta tape for standard definition broadcast.
- stoplying0
In FCP
Effects > Video Filters > Video > De-Interlace
- nosaj0
I'm looking to go the other way. It is 30P footage i need to add to an interlaced NTSC sequence.
- just export exactly the same with interlace ticked on from MPEG streamclip or something. I dont work with NTSC, but id imagine it works the same********
- im to tired to think of correct answer, another day maybe********
- just export exactly the same with interlace ticked on from MPEG streamclip or something. I dont work with NTSC, but id imagine it works the same
- nosaj0
Thanks a ton whereRI - streamclip will do the trick!
- M_C_P0
the short answer is no, you do not need to reinterlace your progressive footage to play in an interlaced timeline.
30p will play the same on an interlaced or progressive timeline and the end result for either timelines will still look like 30p simply because 30P has half of the temporal information that 60i has. reinterlacing won't introduce any more temporal info than you started with.
- M_C_P0
"FCP - I don't get a flicker, but I get little jagged steps (interlacing lines?)"
are you changing the position, rotation, scaling or speed of that progressive footage? if that's the case, your FCP settings would likely be the one introducing the interlace. Always check on a CRT broadcast monitor to make sure your ftg is interlaced correctly and not inverted. LCDs, plasmas, and computer monitors will never give you the proper interlace as CRTs.