That awful combing effect

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 8:19 am

AH, I see. Now it makes a lot more sense to me. What in your opinion would be the best way to deinterlace? I went into VirtualDub and Added the deinterlace filter and did blended frames. I know that TMPGEnc has a deinterlace option....does DVD2AVI or SmartRipper have a deinterlace option? Thanks a lot.

y2kwizard · Post by **y2kwizard** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:14 am

Also, why does Decomb not work for me? The Deinterlace filter in VirtualDub DOES work, but Decomb does not. Why is this?

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:55 am

If you are working wtih footage before you've edited it, you do not need to deinterlace. For the bajillionth time, NTSC video is interlaced. There is nothing wrong with it being this way. Not since my first 2 videos have I deinterlaced footage prior to editing. This is because you do not need to do so - you can deinterlace your finished product, or you can use the interlaced final render and output it to TV through a RealHollywood+ card or a DV500, or encode it to Interlaced MPEG2 and maintain all of the information that's there instead of throwing it away which is essentially what you do when you deinterlace.

IVTC is another story because IVTC changes the way in which you will edit and produces a natively progressive stream instead of an artificially progressive stream.

If you load Decomb.dll using load plugin, then add the following lines to your AVS script:

Telecide()
Decimate()

You should wind up with a progressive stream, unless the source you are working with was never meant to be progressive in the first place (like a live news broadcast, or a 60fields-per-second game console recording).