HitFilm is designed to create progressive projects and output. If you are using interlaced footage in a project we recommend deinterlacing it with this effect to avoid visible interlace ‘combing’.
There are two options:
- Field separation discards one of the fields. This results in a half-resolution image. You can also separate the fields while retaining both, which results in an increased framerate. The composite shot containing the footage should have its framerate set to twice that of the footage to retain normal playback.
- Field displacement uses optical flow techniques to analyze movement within the fields and attempts to create a new, full resolution frame which merges the two fields together. This generates a full resolution frame but artefacts may be visible if the merge is not fully successful.