Smart Deinterlace in Gknot

[samfchen]

Hello,

Yes, I know there are lots of other better solutions to deinterlace an interlaced source.

But assuming my source is NTSC 29.xx and interlaced, do I create the .d2v (under dvd2avi) at 29.xx without any "field operation" opertions? Then as I load it into Gknot, do I select the frame rate to 23.976 fps and proceed on to select "smart deinterlace" later?

As I do the above, upon completion, under Gknot log file, it mentioned something along the line of "number of counted frame differs from settings!"

Please help, assuming I want to stick with the deinterlace function of Gknot,
Thank you,

Sam:)

[manono]

Hi samfchen-

That's not as easy a question to answer as it might seem.

First make your .d2v with no field operation. Then open it in GKnot. Then find a scene where there's motion. Then advance one frame at a time. If you see interlacing in every frame, and it's the same in other motion scenes, then you have no choice but to use that .d2v (at 30fps) and just deinterlace. But don't change the fps down in the lower left or it will lead to the problem you described.

If, on the other hand, when advancing frame by frame you find progressive frames (no interlacing), then you can go back to DVD2AVI, and make a .d2v using Force Film and open it in GKnot and apply a deinterlacer (this is a very bad solution but it's what you asked for). Preferable would be to use the original 30fps .d2v and then to perform IVTC in GKnot

[dragoman]

Hi,

Assuming that you want to keep the movie 29.97 fps, and not change it to 23.97 (this is what you will get if you IVTC in Gknot), then yes, leaving the file 29.97 and choosing "deinterlace" is your option.

However, there are other progs out there that do a better job of de-interlacing, like DeComb.

Personally, I always check "ForceFilm" and have never had a problem with interlacing...

dragoman