Fehraz Lateef wrote:Thank you Andrew, and Marcus for your time and thoughts.
Does Avisynth maintain vertical resolution? Avi/Vapoursynth sounds like a possible solution but there's just one problem. I'm not a programmer. The sites are very intimidating. Is there a step by step guide to using the program to perform the deinterlace? Also am I right that there are a range of scripts for deinterlacing? Why is this? Has anyone tried running either software on a Mac, is doing this buggy? Should I be focussing on Avi or Vapour if all I want to do if learn to deinterlace? Is there a sort of 'idiots guide' to doing this?
Vapoursynth is fine on Mac.
There is no real guide- it's all your experience+ others scripts and forum help.
There are many different filters for deinteralcing- from simple/fast to very complex and slow. Best ones can easily compete with best pro/hardware deinterlacing out there.
I'm actually working now on project with almost 2000 files (80 000 minutes) which need to be deinterlaced (they vary: from 100% progressive through hybrid to 100% interlaced). My script passes progressive frames untouched, which also speeds up whole process.