I see projects like this and its a real shame they always deinterlace down to 30fps rather than 60fps.
Huh. I didn’t think of converting it to 60fps. I kept it at 30fps. I’ll make a 60fps version with Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
JEDIT: 60fps version created! Now I need to upload it on MEGA.NZ.
Thats no good if you are working from an already deinterlaced source. The original Youtube poster should have done that with the original tape otherwise that second field is lost permanenetly. Doing a false 60fps upscale is possible worse.
I’m not super knowledgeable about interlacing, but I thought deinterlacing involved combining both fields together, as they would originally alternate. How does that ‘lose’ the second field?
Not exactly, Deinterlacing takes one field and uses a process to fill in the other field to make a whole frame. If you do that with every even field you get 30fps, if you do it with both the even and the odd field you get 60fps.