Re: FCPX 10.2.2

Personally I'm just sad that interlacing is still a thing.

I agree. But until all broadcast carriers can handle high bandwidth, which won't happen any day soon, interlaced is going to stay.

Best wishes,

Ronny

Recently I suffered myself also from the interlacing problem:

shooting (low end) some little features and especially concerts I usually have to include all my existing camera equipment - i.e. two HDVs (interlaced), plus my current favorite DSLR and my GoPro (both 1080p).

My question to you experts:

what is the best work flow to edit such a multiple camera enterprise? (I still use FCP 5.1.4. )

I prefer to end up with 1080p (mostly H264) .

Is there a preferred way (plug-in etc.) to de-interlace - either while importing the tapes or afterwards?
How does an edit from mixed sources influence this matter?

Many thanks!

I think the next time we massively overhaul our broadcast codecs and render all current TV tuners obsolete we should do away with interlacing. We're still using MPEG 2 which is probably the worst thing to broadcast with. Over-the-air television looks worse than a mediocre Youtube video. Granted, that's due in large part to stations having lots of sub-channels. I just don't know how anyone can feel proud about delivering content that's crushed to badly.

Ha ha!