I'm working on a project with video footage from three cameras, none of which were under control (from a stage performance, some spotlight, and some stagelight)
1 - A good quality MiniDV recording from a tripod. The trouble is that most of this is zoomed out much further than I'd like, and sometimes, the operator wasn't paying attention and the action was off-camera. This is the primary source I'm using.
2 - A pretty-good quality MicroMV recording taken without a tripod. Much of this footage is too shaky to use, and much of it is zoomed in _too_ close to use. But some of it is really good.
3 - A very noisy Hi-8 recording taken without a tripod. Some of it is too shaky, and all of it is very grainy. I've used a _little_ bit of this footage, but more or less only as a last resort, and generally not for the spotlit scenes, where the noise is worse.
The problem is that I just realized (after basically finishing the project) that the MicroMV footage has every 15th frame dropped. Every 15th frame is contains every (15+1)th frame as a placeholder. This results in the picture visibly jumping every half-second. It's very distracting, and I was hoping for some way to smooth it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I tried two things, based on an erroneous assumption. I figured the "jump" was caused mostly by the fields being repeated (going in the order of ...28, 29, 32, 33, 32, 33, 34, 35...), and that a slight pause every 1/30 second wouldn't be as noticeable as the back-and-forth field effect.
1 - I re-encoded part of the MicroMV footage as progressive scan, dropping every other field. This didn't help.
2 - I took about 8 seconds of footage, exporting every duplicated frame, deinterlacing twice (once with odd field, once with even field), and re-importing the deinterlaced pics in order, in place of the duplicated frames. This helped minimally, but the pause every half-second was still very noticeable.
Is there any way to smooth out this pause? I know darn well that a good deal of the quality is lost and cannot be retrieved (getting the original MicroMV tape, finding a MicroMV device to use, and re-exporting the footage isn't really an option, unfortunately, just in case the original footage on the tape doesn't have this flaw). But is there any way that I can smooth this out so that it's not as distracting? It seems that all I would need is a simple filter to create an interpolated frame between frame 14 and frame 16, but considering that my last two ideas didn't pan out, I may be off base on this, too, and an interpolated frame might not successfully smooth it out either.
1 - A good quality MiniDV recording from a tripod. The trouble is that most of this is zoomed out much further than I'd like, and sometimes, the operator wasn't paying attention and the action was off-camera. This is the primary source I'm using.
2 - A pretty-good quality MicroMV recording taken without a tripod. Much of this footage is too shaky to use, and much of it is zoomed in _too_ close to use. But some of it is really good.
3 - A very noisy Hi-8 recording taken without a tripod. Some of it is too shaky, and all of it is very grainy. I've used a _little_ bit of this footage, but more or less only as a last resort, and generally not for the spotlit scenes, where the noise is worse.
The problem is that I just realized (after basically finishing the project) that the MicroMV footage has every 15th frame dropped. Every 15th frame is contains every (15+1)th frame as a placeholder. This results in the picture visibly jumping every half-second. It's very distracting, and I was hoping for some way to smooth it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I tried two things, based on an erroneous assumption. I figured the "jump" was caused mostly by the fields being repeated (going in the order of ...28, 29, 32, 33, 32, 33, 34, 35...), and that a slight pause every 1/30 second wouldn't be as noticeable as the back-and-forth field effect.
1 - I re-encoded part of the MicroMV footage as progressive scan, dropping every other field. This didn't help.
2 - I took about 8 seconds of footage, exporting every duplicated frame, deinterlacing twice (once with odd field, once with even field), and re-importing the deinterlaced pics in order, in place of the duplicated frames. This helped minimally, but the pause every half-second was still very noticeable.
Is there any way to smooth out this pause? I know darn well that a good deal of the quality is lost and cannot be retrieved (getting the original MicroMV tape, finding a MicroMV device to use, and re-exporting the footage isn't really an option, unfortunately, just in case the original footage on the tape doesn't have this flaw). But is there any way that I can smooth this out so that it's not as distracting? It seems that all I would need is a simple filter to create an interpolated frame between frame 14 and frame 16, but considering that my last two ideas didn't pan out, I may be off base on this, too, and an interpolated frame might not successfully smooth it out either.