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Daelin
1st February 2003, 05:17
As I'm sure more than a few are aware, Farscape has the most peculiar telecine technique.

I've managed to simplify it, a bit.

After running this week's Farscape through Telecide(post=false), the fields come out thus:

A: 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 1 2 3 4 5
B: 1 2 3 4 5 6 X 1 2 3 4 5

Where 'X' is a blend of fields B6 and B1.

After using SeperateFields(), Decomb's Decimate() is more than capable of removing the bogus A frame. Detecting the blended B frame is difficult.

I'm just about willing to live with it, but I can't figure out how to recombine the fields. I suppose it's newbie stuff, but I haven't been able to swing it.

Try this:
AVISource("13mb sample video (http://68.100.201.203:1090/~daelin/farscape-test.avi)")
StackVertical(SelectOdd,SelectEven)

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