DV Footage - Interlacing Problems

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 6:42 pm

Hey guys, not really for an AMV, but a video tech problem nonetheless.

I'm doing a small film project for work, shot with a little Canon MiniDV camera. Most of it I imported using my crappy Pinnacle MovieBox, which saved it into a single, sizeable uncompressed avi, and the last chunk was imported with iMovie '08 (blech) at the school, which saved them as several smaller .dv files.

However, BOTH files seem to have some really ugly interlacing issues, despite my having their field orders set appropriately. I can't seem to get VirtualDub to open the dv files in order to deinterlace them or save them as a different format.

I'm just really clueless as to how to appropriately process these, as they're something entirely new to me.

SatoSky · Post by **SatoSky** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:01 pm

I've never dealt with DV files myself so please forgive me if this is a stupid question... have you tried changing the file extensions? Try .avi, that may be the reason VirtualDub refuses to open them. Also, are you using AVISynth to de-interlace, or just VirtualDub?

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:36 pm

SatoSky wrote:I've never dealt with DV files myself so please forgive me if this is a stupid question... have you tried changing the file extensions? Try .avi, that may be the reason VirtualDub refuses to open them.

I did try that; didn't work.

Also, are you using AVISynth to de-interlace, or just VirtualDub?

AVISynth script, then VDub.

Narutoball · Post by **Narutoball** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:07 pm

Usually if you have an uncompressed source or are rendering as an uncompressed format then you will get some Interlacing problems, To fix this you can use AVIsynth or just go to Video> Filters> Add> Deinterlace in Virtual Dub. Then just click Ok until your back to the main box, the defualt settings will be fine. Hope this helps!