Interlacing & Deinterlacing Questions

tygrus wrote on 8/25/2004, 10:44 PM
Perhaps people can put me straight on these issues once and for all as they pertain to my project.

1. Digital stills coming from a digital camera are a video based source and are interlaced..right? I had always assumed they are.
2. If so, does this source need to be deinterlaced in the project settings? I usually always Deinterlace, Blend Fields in my project settings.
3. In my out put, I can use a fully progressive render and not put interlacing back into the final project...right? I have always done it this way because I didnt know better and the output seemed to look pretty good on my projection tv. Should I be doing something different? Aren't tvs made for interlaced signals and shouldnt that be what they recieve?

thanks

Tygrus

Comments

The_Jeff wrote on 8/26/2004, 4:25 AM
1. Digital Stills from a digital camera are progressive.
2. no
3. There are lots of forum posts on this topic. If your source material is interlaced, generally people recommend leaving your output interlaced. There are times when I have used 24p because I liked the look it gave me for some particular project even though my input was normal NTSC DV but I would not recommend going progressive as a general rule.