interlacing animation frames

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Hi. Perhaps somebody can help with this issue.

I created a 2100 frame interior walkthrough, without fields, and no motion blur either. In my infinite wisdom (hehe) I thought I would be able to interlace these frames for PAL with AE and get a nice smooth result suitable for TV.

Well I have managed to improve the quality and reduce flicker to a degree with AE adding fields (and yes the field dominance is correct before anybody asks ), and Reelsmart Motion Blur, but it's not great. Now I wish I had rendered with fields, so I would have a nice smooth animation, though I thought the rendering overhead might go up significantly!?

Anyways, my main question is, does anybody know of any software, or other methods I might use to get a nice clean flicker free animation in PAL format short of re-rendering with fields?

Thanks in advance for all responses.

[jacksc02]

whats flickering?

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If you've ever played an uninterlaced animation (or with incorrect field dominance), with no motion blur, on a TV set, anytime there is significant momevement in the animation you will be get a flicker, or maybe better described as a shudder in the image.

Does that explain what I meant any better?

I found a prog called AVISynth that creates fields from exisiting frames, it's not great though.

[Neilg]

It never will be great, interlacing pushes up the rendertimes and smoothness because it effectivly doubles the fps - you cant pull this information out of thin air.

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Hi Cubicleganster, thanks for the reply - I feared that might be the answer - never mind, I live and learn