@Beardeboss

Hi

Assuming you mean the Interpolate intermediate images option in the Speed effect or video object properties

Both are the same setting.

As @AAProds has commented, deinterlacing is the big issue.

How well the Interpolation option works depends on the motion/movement or pan speed that is in the source video.

For relatively slow motion, it can be effective in reducing combing.

It is going to be a case of try it and see, also try doubling the frame rate on export.

John EB
Forum Moderator

Yes I appreciate the comments guys. I was going through VD2 with the LAGS AVI then doing a crop away black bars head switching noise fuzzy edges. Normally I crop away the fuzzy edges the use the add borders in black and re centre the cropepd frame back to 720x576 as I prefer to keep the borders black. I know that some people like to have no black borders around the edges of the frame and sometimes I do just that but since most times the video is to be watched on a regular LCD led screen then also since most have already abit of over scan by default albeit alot less than the 10% of the old cathode ray sets I find most have a slight over scan of 2 to 3% the adding back clean black borders ensures that nothing is cut from the original frame. I actually don't mind the black frame borders and in my own way I guess it keeps the frame at it's original size as captured 720x576. Any way back to the workflow I was explaining..

Hauppauge usb-live2 capture to LAGS via Panasonic Svhs SV121 TBC AND 3D Noise Reduction on. Then fetch AVI into VD2.

Deinterlace double frame rate TFF. Next Neat Video for noise then Crop frame then add borders back 720x576 centre video in frame then it is ready to export. Of course as I can trim the video also in VD an export as x264. As said this is what I do for quick edits but since I prefer the interface and using Magix to edit since it is a better option for editing in particular for fading in and out adding transitions Titles etc then I was trying to arrange a suitable way I could possibly do it all in magix. Yes so yes in the past I have also used Davinci resolve free addition to process DV AVI codec files and liked the way it automatically detects the 25fps PAL interlaced file and by default doubles to 50p in the same kind of thing that vd2 deinterlace filter does. It would be great if that was how magix proceeded with the same files. However the thing is that Davinci doesn't work with LAGS AVI and the only other option is to use MagicYUV bought codec which is fairly priced and I think that is work it if needed but even so it only then works (the magicyuv plugin) with the paid studio version of Davinci resolve the I am not sure is work forking out more money when both the magix editors import lags and also a lot more codecs than Davinci and also have a lot of other features that I find useful. I find that the magix editors do a lot and it is possible to purchase them both for less than a Davinci resolve licence especially when there are offers on. Yes I am going to experiment with the settings interpol. Never thought about looking at the speed control option to see if this improved things. Yes would be good to do some tests see what goes. As said the whole interlaced handling thing is kinda unknown as to what is happening underneath the hood I the magix editors. Would be nice to know from the hq at magix as to what they do

Hi @Beardeboss,

@AAProds mentioned that he mainly deinterlaces using QTGMC. I found this video which compares YADIF to QTGMC. I thought it was impressive and perhaps @Beardeboss, it may be a consideration for your workflow.

The person who made the video indicated that he uses a program called Hybrid. I am not familiar with Hybrid but its something to investigate. Perhaps @AAProds has looked into it and even uses it?

https://www.selur.de/downloads

BTW, both of you intend to capture using AmarecTV. I'm curious as to why this capture program over say VDub?