How do I add interlacing to a video?

[TheTinkles]

I'm looking for any technique that creates that terrible interlaced look. I don't care if it's legitamate interlacing or something that looks like it.

[R Neil Haugen]

Have you searched the web? I'd definitely look for something at Boris or Red Giant ...

Neil

[TheTinkles]

I've certainly searched around. Reasonably, everybody seems to want to remove interlacing from their footage. The best resource I've managed to find is this old After Effects tutorial: https://youtu.be/k9onhTx7Y-M. After fiddling around in both After Effects and Premiere, I cannot seem to get the grid effect to work and I simply don't like the look of the wave warp effect.

[R Neil Haugen]

Just found one way in Premiere ... on this YouTube:

Fake Interlaced Look in Premiere

I think I'd apply a bit of blur to it ... and probably apply a touch of vertical blur. And you might want to mess with the sharpness of the original image also, and either lift blacks just a bit "milky" or slightly crush them ... and the same with highlights.

I might pull overall saturation back, but give a narrow spike in green, magenta, and yellow bands.

See what it looks like, play around ...

Neil

[TheTinkles]

Thanks, but that's not exactly what I'm going for. I want to create the artifacting caused by the desynchronization of the interlacing fields.

My overall intent is to use this effect in creating graphics like those in this video.

[salvo34]

I don't think what you want has anything to do with interlacing re: real technical facts of how that works ( 2 half frames ( odd and even lines) to create ONE broadcast frame).

I think you are dealing with a visual FX and that's a different subject which, thankfully, Neil is helping you with because I personally would rather have a sharp stick in my eye than watch your sample video again.

🙂

[R Neil Haugen]

So actually you're looking more for something that splits the color channels and offsets them some ... I think you're needing to go into AfterEffects for work like that.

Neil

[TheTinkles]

Alright I'll try to figure that out. Thanks for the help!