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Table Of Contents
Video Tools
Topics in this chapter:
About Video Tools on page 795
Deinterlace on page 795
Interlace on page 801
Pulldown on page 802
About Video Tools
Use the Video tools to perform the following operations:
Inputting interlaced material and converting it to progressive.
Outputting progressive material to interlaced format.
Removing or adding 3:2 pulldown to convert the frame rate of footage.
Deinterlace
Video media is interlaced, meaning one frame consists of two fields representing
different points of time. Since each field is sampled on only the odd or even
scanlines, each field is missing half the pixels needed to make a full frame at
that point in time. Deinterlacing is a process of interpolating the missing
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