ultimate quality?

orbisvicis · Post by **orbisvicis** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:24 pm

what is better: 24p or 60/50i bob/deinterlaced -> 60/50p

Also, can you improve 24p by blending adjacent frames, therefore doubling the framerate to 48p and generating smoother motion?

thanks

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:16 am

Progressive will always look better than something that's interlaced, IMO, especially on a computer monitor. Blending frames will just make... blended frames that look ugly.

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:19 am

orbisvicis wrote:what is better: 24p or 60/50i bob/deinterlaced -> 60/50p

I prefer anything progressive.

orbisvicis wrote:Also, can you improve 24p by blending adjacent frames, therefore doubling the framerate to 48p and generating smoother motion?

I'm not sure what you mean. If you blend adjacent frames, it would still be 24p would it not? Effectively you are viewing 48 frames in 1 second, but not individually-- they just overlap, which wouldn't improve motion, but might make for a nifty looking effect :P

I can only think of two ways to improve motion:

1. generate a special effect that creates the motion, and then export from your editor at a high framerate, like EasyAction by Pianos.

2. make your footage 24fps progressive, trying to ensure all duplicate frames are removed, then change the framerate to something higher [assumefps()], and edit/export at the new framerate, like in my amv Awakened.

keep in mind that playback can be an issue; I've only gotten my video to play properly when using VLC [for some reason that I can't figure out] and the higher framerate is only apparent half way into the video. [And obviously the footage will look sped up.]

I don't have any proof, but I think AMV editors have been using that second trick for quite some time, where they convert 24p-->30p for editing.