interlacing a progressive source

[lancer]

I've got a 24fps progressive source file.

the original capture is long lost and I need to run dedot on it to get rid of the dot crawl

what do I need to put in my script to interlace the file, and then deinterlace it again afterwards to site either side of the dedot script?

also, I normally do this when loading an avi source

a avisource=("p:\file1.avi")
b avisource=("p:\file2.avi")
c avisource=("p:\file3.avi")
a++b++c

but recently I've took to using this method

v1 avisource
V2 avisource

v3 v1.v2 overlay etc
v4 filters here
v5 filters here

return v5

so had to combine file1,2 and 3 into a single file.

how do I combine multiple files into a single run of files while retaining this v1,v2,v3 layout?

[Mug Funky]

umm.. why do you need interlaced frames for DeDot? if the source isn't interlaced, you can't make it interlaced again. the best you can do is guess what might have been there (there's plugins that can do this, but i don't think it's what you need).

as for the syntax stuff, i don't quite get what you're wanting to do. you could do this:


a=avisource("blah1.avi")
b=avisource("blah2.avi")
c=avisource("blah3.avi")

a
filter1()
filter2()
# anything else you want...
a=last

b
filter3().filter4()
b=last

a+b+c # single + is alignedsplice, rather than unalignedsplice,
# which might be useful if you've got misbehaving audio

[lancer]

that's exactly what I was wanting thanks.