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Author Topic: HDCAM and interlace jaggies Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 11-15-2008 12:49 PM                     How do I make them go away? Sony J-H3 connected to a Barco ACS-2048 via component video. The DVD player connected in exactly the same way produces no interlace lines, even though its only 480. Is there an output setting in one of the J-H3's many confusing menu functions that allows me to force progressive out?  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-15-2008 01:36 PM                        Does this happen with all tapes or just one? It may be the tape itself (well, the post house that recorded it) that is defective. Every film festival seems to have at least one such tape. Menu item #13 lets you change the frame rate and such, but you probably already know that this has to be set to whatever the tape was recorded with (usually either 59.94i or 23.98PsF), otherwise you won't get sound and the picture will play at the wrong speed. The J-H3 won't convert frame rates or interlace/progressive, however; it just outputs whatever format was used when the tape was recorded (same with NTSC/PAL on a J-30).  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-15-2008 02:48 PM                     I'm pretty sure any video content shot in an interlaced format needs to be shown interlaced. If the video is converted at all into a progressive video stream you're going to see the sawtooth artifacts more easily due to the 1/60 second time difference between recording the two fields of each frame.  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 11-15-2008 04:07 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson I'm pretty sure any video content shot in an interlaced format needs to be shown interlaced Unfortunately video projectors tend to be progressive by nature and have to convert i to p .  |  IP: Logged

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