SKStills

Thank you very much for your kind reply, I’ll see what results I can get from using VLC

Hello and thank you for anyone reading. So I know they’re are so many programs that can de-interlace and so many how to guides how to convert and do so but I suppose I’ll always question if I’m ever converting correctly so I was wondering if anyone could help me get on a good start on the right path in preserving media. I’m trying to de-interlace a .mkv file that was converted from a .Lds file. The output file results are below.

Video
ID : 1
Format : FFV1
Format version : Version 3.4
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Format settings, Slice count : 24 slices per frame
Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / FFV1
Duration : 50 min 42 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 140 Mb/s
Width : 760 pixels
Height : 488 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 10 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan type, store method : Interleaved fields
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossless
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 12.579
Stream size : 49.5 GiB (98%)
Writing library : Lavc61.19.101 ffv1
Default : No
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Matrix coefficients : BT.601
coder_type : Range Coder
ErrorDetectionType : Per slice

So back to the many programs… If I plan on editing the video also later like in coloring and cuts/combine, what should I be doing? Should I be using Resolve and learn to output the file lossless or Handbrake with certain settings like EEDI2 or Hybrid with QTGMC, very slow, bob or even see what virtual dub can do. My last guess would maybe be something like ai “Topaz” to de-interlace while keeping the same video size and not upscaling. Thanks for any advise

Best of luck with the project!

Very cool