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March 12, 2024
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Deinterlacing

  • March 12, 2024
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Why does the optic flow function not include better deinterlacing methods like bwdif or w3fdif? The current one is very slow and I don't think it does a better job than these do. Also I'm not aware of any plugin that I could use to add one of those. Voukoder does allow deinterlacing filters but it will apply them to the whole sequence and not only to the interlaced clips. Also, there should be the option to choose field or frame based deinterlacing, which currently isn't the case. The list goes on with the never-arriving 2 pass hevc encoding for instance, but that is yet another topic. For now, how do I solve premiere's deinterlacing and are there any plans to improve it? I will post this in discussion because I don't think anyone would read my "idea".

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2024

Optical Flow does not deinterlace.

The Optical Flow feature in Premiere Pro uses frame analyses and pixel motion estimation to create brand new video frames, resulting in smoother speed changes, time-remapping, and frame-rate conversion.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
March 12, 2024

Have you tried AfterEffects? It has better options for say cadence pull-downs and such things.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
March 12, 2024

I haven't thought about that. Is it possible to use bwdif, estdif, qtgmc or some other higher quality deinterlacer with AE or with some compatible plugin? I'm not sure how much better it would be than just premiere, but anyway... thanks for helping me!

R Neil Haugen
Legend
March 12, 2024

Ae has cadence pull-down options not available in Pr. Pr tends to do OK with cadence and framerate changes but not always perfectly.

 

And quite often, it handles interlaced to progressive well also. But again, not always.

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...