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- Erniew@access.digex.net said:
-
- >Okay, I have -one-. It's specifically a field rendering problem, and
- >not something that flipping fields will solve. This is a little hard
- >to diagram in ASCII-Vision, but consider the following:
- >
- >(1 2) (3 4) (5 6)
- >
- >Each pair of numbers represents a frame with two fields. The fields
- >are 1/60 of a second apart, so whatever it is we're counting with those
- >numbers, it advances by one per field and two per frame. (Buying this
- >so far?) If you're ready to reverse at this point, what's the next
- >frame?
- >
- >If we use (3 4) we get a jump from 6 to 3:
- >
- >... (5 6) (3 4) ...
- >
- >If we reverse fields and use (4 3), we get a jump from 6 to 4:
- >
- >... (5 6) (4 3) ...
- >
- >See? What we really want is
- >
- >... (5 6) (5 4) ...
-
- Wouldn't you have, upon rendering the same frames with flip fields on:
-
- (1 2) (3 4) (5 6) (6 5) (4 3) (2 1) ?
-
- Also there's the "screen position" of the fields to consider:
- If you have, for example,
-
- Frame 1 Field A (Even scan lines)
- Field B (Odd scan lines)
-
- Frame 2 Field A (Even scan lines)
- Field B (Odd scan lines)
-
- ...etc...
-
- ...and if you filp the fields, not only the order, but the relative
- position of each field's scan lines have changed, thus transposing
- each field image up or down by one pixel line.
- An Abekas, for example, wants to see the fields in a particular
- order and, apparently, assigns each field to a different group of scan
- lines than lightwave assigns them. I don't know exactly what's going
- on in this situation, but it looks REALLY BAD.
-
- Maybe it would be handy if LW could not only flip fields, but
- offset the field dominance by one.
- Of course, if LW could render little frame/field identifying
- numbers in the overscan area of each field, it might be easier to
- figure out what's going on with these type of problems. (Sounds like a
- good idea for a plug-in. Hint, hint.)
-
- I wonder if motion-blurred (not field-rendered) frames have the
- same problem? In other words, is motion-blur perfectly symetrical?
- (I should try it and find out, I guess... :)
-
- -Jim
- James G. Jones
- Nibbles & Bits
- jgjones@usa.net
-
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