Sounds like the last thing any sane man would want to do, throw away half the resolution. But here's the thing. Trying to turn clients video into a DVD I've found that parts of it have what looks like bad interlace artifacts. Except when played back through a TV they're still there and on closer inspection they're much taller than one scan line.
So if I grab a frame into PS and de-interlace one field looks as it should, soft but no artifacts. The other one still has artifacts about 4 or 5 lines high. Needless to say this tends to get worse going through the mpeg encoder.
So I'm thinking maybe a fix for the bad parts is to use only odd fields and live with the drop in vertical res. I've tried using guassian blur with around 0.010 vertical and 0 horizontal but that looks worse than just droping a field.
Anyone know if I can trick Vegas into ditching one field and then interlacing that? Or is this a job for something like VD?
So if I grab a frame into PS and de-interlace one field looks as it should, soft but no artifacts. The other one still has artifacts about 4 or 5 lines high. Needless to say this tends to get worse going through the mpeg encoder.
So I'm thinking maybe a fix for the bad parts is to use only odd fields and live with the drop in vertical res. I've tried using guassian blur with around 0.010 vertical and 0 horizontal but that looks worse than just droping a field.
Anyone know if I can trick Vegas into ditching one field and then interlacing that? Or is this a job for something like VD?