Working with progressive and interlaced in project

xstr8guy@sbcglobal.net wrote on 9/9/2009, 3:01 PM
I'm working on a project that was shot with 2 cams. The finished edit will bounce between the 2 cams with Cam One footage being used most frequently. Normally we shoot everything in Progressive scan... but this time someone screwed up.

Unfortunately Cam One was set to 25.000 fps interlaced, 1440x1080x12, MPEG-2

And Cam Two is 25.000 fps progressive, 1440x1080x12, MPEG-2

What do I put in Project Properties... interlaced or progressive?

And when I render to WMV, Quicktime and MP4 for Web use what settings would I use to have a deinterlaced/progessive scan video?

And if I want to render to DVD or BluRay, what do I do then?

Help!

Comments

xstr8guy@sbcglobal.net wrote on 9/9/2009, 5:03 PM
Anyone?

I've searched the board for relevant topics but can't find anything.
Coursedesign wrote on 9/9/2009, 7:35 PM
I would deinterlace the interlaced footage separately, then when I'm happy with the results, pop this into a progressive project in Vegas with the other progressive footage.

Why? The end result (web video) is going to be displayed on computer screens that can safely be assumed to be progressive.

If there isn't much movement in the interlaced footage, you can just let Vegas do the job. Otherwise, use motion-adaptive deinterlacing (just search the many threads on this here).
Laurence wrote on 9/9/2009, 8:11 PM
All you really need to do is set your Vegas project properties to 25 fps progressive, set your deinterlace method to whichever method you prefer (I think blend fields looks better) and let Vegas do the rest. Vegas will deinterlace just the interlaced footage and leave the progressive stuff alone. The stuff shot interlaced won't look quite as sharp but it should still look very good. I expect very few people will even be able to tell the difference.
xstr8guy@sbcglobal.net wrote on 9/10/2009, 12:28 PM
Thanks for the tips guys! That is exactly what I needed to know. :)
Laurence wrote on 9/10/2009, 1:33 PM
I really wouldn't worry too much. For example, I have a shoot on the 15th where I will be using three HDV cameras. Two of them do 30p, one doesn't. I will set the two that can shoot 30p to that setting, and the 60i camera I will just shoot at 60i. I'll put all the clips on a 30p Vegas timeline with a blend fields deinterlace method selected. With that setting, Vegas will do it's blend field only on the 60i clips. It will look fine, especially considering that the final delivery will be Youtube HD.