Deinterlace motion jpeg quicktime

[kevito]

I'm trying to edit and put together an animation demo reel and I've looked everywhere on how to solve this and have only came up with a whopping headache. I read the guide over at 100fps and plenty of others about deinterlacing but still can't figure this out.

The best version of my film that my school gave me is a 2 minute 378mb quicktime file. It's 720x486 and Motion JPEG A with 44100 Hz 16 bit stereo uncompressed sound. It has interlaced frames like crazy and looks really bad in spots. Why they gave me a version like this is beyond me. I have quicktime pro, which has a checkbox in the quality portion of the properties that says Deinterlace fields. Doesn't do a thing.

Basically, I want to be able to combine this with a bunch of uncompressed avi clips and some still images into one video file that will play on most players. (divx5.11?) I have virtual dub, but this won't open the mov file, and I don't seem to be able to combine stills and video with it. avisynth doesn't seem to be able to handle the mjpeg mov file either.

Could someone point me in the right direction as to how to do this in the least lossy way? If I need different programs than what I'm trying?

Thanks,
kevin

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[Forum Troll]

Open Quicktime. Klik FILE -> EXPORT. In the EXPORT box choose MOVIE -> AVI. Klik the OPTIONS button. Set the desired settings for video and audio. Klik OK then SAVE. Et Viola.

[kevito]

Ok, I get that. I've tried that in numerous formats. What I want to do is deinterlace the footage though. Quicktime has no means of doing this. I think I've figured it out by outputting with qt to uncompressed AVI, then opening in virtualdub (which has to reconstruct missing index block, not sure what that's about). Then I run the inverse telecine 3:2 pulldown as "reconstruct from fields - adaptive". I can then output from virtualdub as uncompressed AVI again and 90% of the interlacing is fixed.

Question: Does this method of outputting twice as uncompressed avi lose any information? It seems then I can open in quicktime again, and use qt to edit and add in the stillframes and other video footage I want. Then I could output once again uncompressed avi, open in virtual dub and output it in whatever codec I need (or just use quicktime to output it if I want to use the codecs that work with it).