Does anyone use this feature and would it be of any use for projects capturing from Hi8mm AVI files and getting the most project image quality to DVD? Right now I import my Hi8 to AVI using Studio 9 with the DC10 Plus PCI card in Windows XP. I'm using the Studio 14 trial and it's been wonderful as my last upgrade to version 10 was awful. Version 10 does install in Windows 7 but can hang up when making the DVD folder and files. Frankly version 10 is more stable (10.8) than any past experience of getting it to work in Vista or XP. I've always reverted back to version 9.43 for it's stability. I now watch all my DVD projects on a Samsung 67" HD set and am thinking the progressive scan would be useful? There is also a video effect in version 14 to De-interlace with Line Doubling method and Field choice. Anyone use and can comment on this? Thanks so much.

Hey, another Kansan!  Cool...

Basically, S10-onwards does "OK" if you start a progressive-scan project, using progressive-scan source (or still photos), and outputting to progressive-scan output.

If your input is interlaced, you can pretty much forget outputting as progressive as being helpful at all.  It appears that Studio doesn't "deinterlace" as much as it simply drops one set of fields (thus throwing away half of the detail), then uses one of several sets of schemes to double the lines back up to full-size again.  It (usually) doesn't look all that good as compared to what the full-quality interlaced output would have.

Deinterlacing works pretty good when you are DOWNSIZING your files (e.g. outputting your file as a 320x240 file for playback on a portable media player), but when you are trying to keep the highest quality possible, it can look jagged/ugly as compared to interlaced output.

In my experience, anyhow.

 

BittMann

Thanks for the tip BittMan. Does this help TS?