Deinterlacing hybrid footage

Glad you like it. It's good to see that my work is also useful to others. I just downloaded Vinverse, and will give it a try. True the sharpening is not part of the script. But I also pointed that out in the comments. I just included it because I thought it might be helpful to some people. Frame reduction, I believe, would be part of the script if you are talking deinterlacing, but not when you're talking bobbing, and here also I just included it because I thought it might help someone. The important part of the script though (and what I spent my time on), is what comes before, I do agree. And I feel honored that you want to include it in the FAQ. Let me know how it turns out with the other bobbers. Thank you, Changeandy

wouldn't be "tdeint(mode=1,full=false,tryweave=true)" be the same? if not, where's the difference? i used it for backing up babylon 5 (pal version), where the live-action was shot on film (in pal 25 fps prog.) and the CGIs were interlaced. TDeint was perfectly able to leave the film content untouced and just deinterlace the CGIs.

NICE. And fast, too. There seems to be slightly more window blind flicker (that was one of the big issues of the material that I was trying to deinterlace), but not very much. I tried modifying it a bit, namely: - putting in smoothdeinterlace as the bobber - changing the cthresh value (some oft the CGI logos in my material are quite sharp and can cause tdeint to think some parts of the frame are combed) - adding FieldDeinterlace for postprocessing (vinverse does not seem to work quite as well for the material I have, although I haven't played with the parameters yet) like so: smoothie = IntFootage.SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true,lacethresh=0) #! You might have to change the tff parameter tdeint(mode=1,full=false,cthresh=7,tryweave=true,edeint=smoothie) FieldDeinterlace(map =false, blend=true, dthreshold=3) and I must say I REALLY like the results. Much more elegant than my two-pronged approach. Most artifacts I found to be pretty much invisible in real time playback. It makes for a fast and effective all-rounder. Thanks for the tip!

doubled = IntFootage.separatefields().DoubleWeave() will internally use DoubleWeaveFields which does a full frame blit every frame. doubled = IntFootage.DoubleWeave() will do the same thing and internally use the faster DoubleWeaveFrames which only does 1 blit per 2 frames.

@ IanB: Thank you for the tip! @ToS_Maverick: Yes, I tried eedi2 and it is quite a good bobber. What I especially like about it is how it produces very smooth edges. But I was having issues with some window blinds in the background and eedi2 produced too much flicker there. I looked long and hard for a command that would reduce this very annoying artefact and finally stumbled upon Smoothdeinterlace, which has quite excellent flicker reduction. It does, however, have shortcomings with progressive footage as well as producing somewhat pixellated edges. Here TDeint could compensate quite well, since it definitely knows which scanlines to keep and which to bob. And it allows you to use any bobber you like, how great is that? Finally I used FieldDeinterlace to smooth out the pixellated edges, and Bob was my uncle, so to say :p. As for VFR video, I have not yet done anything in that area, but I will keep your tip in mind.