Forcing Deinterlacing

jaegersing wrote on 1/30/2006, 4:56 PM

I have a clip with lots of movement and I want to freeze-frame it at a certain point. I thought I should be able to do it by creating a subclip with the outpoint where I want the freeze-frame to occur, setting the Loop switch to off and then dragging the right hand edge to make the freeze-frame.

It all works OK, except that when I render it the freeze-frame actually comes out as 2 fields that alternate rapidly, instead of being deinterlaced into a single, steady frame. On a TV monitor it looks terrible.

My (Vegas 6c) project and clip settings are PAL DV, with Lower Field first, and the Deinterlace method is set to Interpolate. I did try all combinations of field order and deinterlace method, but could not get Vegas to deinterlace the freeze-frame part.

I know I can create the freeze-frame by exporting a still and bringing it back to the lineline, but I am really puzzled that I cannot get Vegas to do the deinterlacing automatically using the method above (which would be much more convenient if it worked!). Can anyone help? (or explain why my expectation is misguided).

Richard Hunter

Comments

Former user wrote on 1/30/2006, 5:27 PM

Try using the VELOCITY envelope. I believe it gives a good freeze frame.

Dave T2

jaegersing wrote on 1/31/2006, 1:48 AM

Hi Dave. Thanks for the reply. Velocity Envelope can work, but it's a bit more fiddly than the method I was hoping to use. I'm really trying to find out if there is any simple way to force Vegas to deinterlace the last frame of the non-looping subclip.

Richard

jaegersing wrote on 1/31/2006, 5:58 AM

Hi Marquat, thanks. Yes, I already used a snapshot as a way to get the project finished. I'm just wondering if the other method can be made to work or not.

Richard

Former user wrote on 1/31/2006, 7:26 AM

I have found the Velocity envelope very easy to use. Sorry, though I don't know about the way you are doing it as to why it doesn't work.

Dave T2