I tried to research and understand interlaced footage, because Most of my footage seems to have some lines and moving double picture effect. Not sure if this is interlaced, but I got the impression this maybe a tv format that plays normally on tvs?. Now h264 plus mpeg2 renders produce this, which isn't on the original footage. I would like to know the settings to make the lines not appear on comp or tv if possible. Submitting to a film fest, and not sure which they will view with.
Sorry, I'm not sure how to answer the questions? Not sure how to tell prog vs interlaced, or which settings? The footage is mostly from a gh1 micro 43s camera in 1080 sized down to 720. The export settings I'm using are just the standard h264 or mpeg2 settings(trying both to try to get a decent export) although I lower the bitrate for online submissions. I tried doing a small file, then converted it to dvd format with a convert/burning program biz my encore isn't working. But going to retry my encore again.
I'm sorry, I'll become an expert before I ask a question on a forum meant to help non experts.
I tried to understand interlaced footage and was having trouble, as was the purpose of the post. But I don't think there is a handbook chapter for "what settings forum posters are talking about when they ask you what your settings are"? Many posts require more than one response, and it wouldn't be the end of the world to say "check here to see if your footage is interlaced or not".
Johnrh76, forgive me if you are not younger than 30, but you may represent the leading edge of a wave of users who have never encountered, and therefore have no experience with, interlaced footage. If you grew up in a household where the only TV you've ever seen is a flat screen, and the only video you've ever watched is on disc or streamed from a multimedia PC or "On Demand" box, and if the only "live" TV you've ever watched is sent to you by a digital cable box, DirecTV or Dish Network, then the word "interlaced" likely has zero meaning for you.
The rest of us grew up with, and learned to edit with, video where each frame was split into 2 half-frames that had to be sent via gigawatt transmitters and received by antennas that were connected to our 4:3 TVs. To modify Jim's car analogy, it's like a group of folks talking about 4 BBL carburetors to another group of folks who've never encountered anything in a car engine except fuel injection and on-board computer modules.
Interlaced video is as fundamental to us as Facebook and cellphone texting is to the current generation. Don't be offended if we're all shocked when someone like you says, "Interlaced video? What's that?".
If you have a red line over the timeline after importing a video and before adding any effects... your project is wrong for your video... read above about codecs
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Once you know exactly what it is you are editing, report back with that information... and your project setting, and if there is a red line above the video in the timeline, which indicates a mismatch between video and project
Thanks John, I have learned things. But working on a final cut, rendering rough cuts and life stuff leaves a lot of things I've never heard of. A couple months ago I thought I just had to push render and no worries! Working my diagnostic skills though.
