> If some one knows a better method to interlace footage I would appreciate hearing
Well, I don't know David. I've never done a "head to head" between Adobe's pixel motion feature and AviSynth's MVTools plugin. I've used both, with good results and errors from both, both are slow, so ??
In my experience, rate-doubling via motion compensation works much better on unedited sources than it does in post-processing. Stuff like effects, titles, cuts, transitions can easily trip it up.
If you want to try it the AviSynth way, you can use my
timelapse package. You can try something like this from Premiere using DebugMode FrameServer...
SetMemoryMax(512)
AviSource("720p30_signpost.avi")
hd2sd(
\ NR=2, GrapeSmootherAmount=20,
\ Interlaced = false,
\ ResizeSharper = true,
\ OutputColorSpace="YUY2"
\)
Timelapse(interlaced_in=false, interlaced_out=true, ClipSpeed = 1, StretchMethod=1)
Alternatively, you could do a 30p->24p "film" conversion using
dv60i2film as well, which may look nicer on flat screen TVs, too. Like so...
SetMemoryMax(512)
AviSource("720p30_signpost.avi")
a = last
hd2sd(
\ NR=2, GrapeSmootherAmount=20,
\ Interlaced = false,
\ ResizeSharper = true,
\ OutputColorSpace="YUY2"
\)
Timelapse(interlaced_in=false, StretchMethod=1, ClipSpeed=0.5, Aperture=0)
AssumeFPS(60000,1001)
(HasAudio(a)) ? AudioDub(last, a) : last
dv60i2film(interlaced=false, BlendMethod=5)
