After months of research and a bunch of tests with various equipment to get the best possible capture from laserdiscs I’m baffled at the prospect of leaving the footage Interlaced if viewing on a BD player-only vs. uploading online. 99% of the forums say to deinterlace and IVTC. Yet only a few say to let the player do the deinterlacing.
I’m capturing at 480i YUV 10-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed. DVD recorder (passthrough) for 3D comb filter. YADIF for deinterlacing. Upscaling to 720p 23.97fps. So far good results but a few projects have more combing/ghosting on faster moving objects than others. I know with Interlaced footage it will never be as good as if the 3:2 pulldown was never applied. And I know QTGMC is a better method for deinterlacing than YADIF.
Questions:
1) Can a BD player deinterlace better than QTGMC?
-I would think a computer program would be better than a piece of hardware. I originally bought a video processor for the 3D filter, which is also capable of real-time IVTC & upscaling but learned that a program would do a better job with both.
2) If the player does the deinterlacing, what about IVTC? If leaving the footage Interlaced which is 29.97fps, what if the original source is 24fps?
-For the discs with footage shot on video at 29.97 I’m sure it’s not a problem.
3) Little confusing why Progressive 23.97fps isn’t actually 24fps? A movie shot on film at 24fps should equal Progressive video 24fps since there are no fields involved?
Thanks to usually_quiet for convincing me capture at the native frame rate & resolution of 480i/29.97. And to use a dvd-recorder for the 3D comb filter instead of a video processor. That was a hard pill to swallow as the Lumagen 2144’s comb filter is absolutely perfect. But the lowest output rez is 480p and the only interlace option is 1080. Not to mention the overscan issues the 2144 has with analog the inputs.
Also thanks to Cornucopia, JV Raines, jagabo
I’m capturing at 480i YUV 10-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed. DVD recorder (passthrough) for 3D comb filter. YADIF for deinterlacing. Upscaling to 720p 23.97fps. So far good results but a few projects have more combing/ghosting on faster moving objects than others. I know with Interlaced footage it will never be as good as if the 3:2 pulldown was never applied. And I know QTGMC is a better method for deinterlacing than YADIF.
Questions:
1) Can a BD player deinterlace better than QTGMC?
-I would think a computer program would be better than a piece of hardware. I originally bought a video processor for the 3D filter, which is also capable of real-time IVTC & upscaling but learned that a program would do a better job with both.
2) If the player does the deinterlacing, what about IVTC? If leaving the footage Interlaced which is 29.97fps, what if the original source is 24fps?
-For the discs with footage shot on video at 29.97 I’m sure it’s not a problem.
3) Little confusing why Progressive 23.97fps isn’t actually 24fps? A movie shot on film at 24fps should equal Progressive video 24fps since there are no fields involved?
Thanks to usually_quiet for convincing me capture at the native frame rate & resolution of 480i/29.97. And to use a dvd-recorder for the 3D comb filter instead of a video processor. That was a hard pill to swallow as the Lumagen 2144’s comb filter is absolutely perfect. But the lowest output rez is 480p and the only interlace option is 1080. Not to mention the overscan issues the 2144 has with analog the inputs.
Also thanks to Cornucopia, JV Raines, jagabo