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What does it do?

Converts interlaced video to progressive scan!
Converts DVX100 video to true 24P New!

Fans of the Canon XL-1 have known for years that the "frame movie" mode of that camera can achieve a film-like appearance. It appears to shoot 30 NTSC or 25 PAL frames per second, much like a movie camera takes 24 frames per second, without interlaced fields. The result looks much more like film than the 60 fields/sec or 50 fields/sec of conventional interlaced video. However, the XL-1 is not the sharpest camera in the world and the "frame movie" mode has its own problems: for example, NTSC frame mode cannot be smoothly converted to 24 frames/sec for transfer to film. Also, since the camera generates the "frames" by offsetting the green sensor by one scan line, the vertical resolution is slightly reduced and rapidly moving objects show a slight color fringe around them. Frame Mode has 320 vertical lines resolution vs. 360 lines for interlaced mode (see here for details on XL-1 Frame Mode).

But now there is a better way: shoot regular interlaced video with any DV camera: including Canon, Sony, JVC or Panasonic. And then convert the edited footage to progressive-scan with DVFilm Maker. The results have all the advantages of "frame movie" mode but with the crystal clarity you should expect from DV.

For interlaced video cameras, DVFilm Maker performs the following operations in a single pass:

It intelligently deinterlaces NTSC or PAL video from Quicktime or AVI files, for a "shot on film" appearance, without reducing resolution.
It also converts 16:9 anamorphic to letterbox if required.
It can also letterbox (crop) 4:3 video to 16:9 if required.
It can also simulate film grain and red layer emulsion shift if required.
DVFilm Maker requires Quicktime 5 (included on CDROM) or Quicktime 6.