Here are the steps you can take to de-interlace an image in Photoshop:

Open the image in Photoshop.

Make sure the image layer is selected and go to Filter > Video > De-Interlace.

The default option usually provide great results but these can be adjusted as needed. Click OK.

There you have it! Use Gaussian Blur if necessary to help clean up rough areas.

Watch the video below if you’re interested in learning more about interlaced frame rates from our friends at Indy Mogul.

Interlaced and Progressive Frame Rates Explained!

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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to disable the Smart Resample feature in Sony Vegas to prevent ghosting.

Have you ever noticed after you import certain clips in your timeline, there’s a ghosting effect much like the image above? This happens when you import footage into your timeline that has a different frame rate than the project. The “Smart Resample” feature of Sony Vegas, creates a crossfade effect between the original frames to match the source frames.

In this case, the project was set at 59.940 FPS (Frames Per Second) while this particular video clip had a slightly different fps of 59.949 fps. So, Sony Vegas automatically adjusted the clip with “Smart Resampling” to try and match the framerate of the project. As it may be useful in certain circumstances, you’ll usually get a much sharper look when turning it off.

‘Smart Resample‘ is always on by default and there’s currently no way to change that. Though, it only applies itself when the event’s frame rate does not match the source frames. Useful if you experience any interlacing problems or any other jittery output problems.

To turn off Smart Resampling, select all the clips you want to disable it from. Right-Click the first clip and then go to Switches > Disable Resample. This will apply that option to all of your selected clips.

If you would like a quicker way to disable Smart Resample for all clips, check out this script: http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/959394 You’ll be able to disable it for your entire project with a click of a button. Though, I found it to be just as fast doing it manually.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to simply split two videos side by side in Sony Vegas. We’ll use the Event Pan/Crop tool to create a one-time preset which can be used for all videos. Works for 1080p and 720p video sizes + more.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments below!

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In this tutorial, we will be taking a look at how you can animate things with the use of gradient wipes in Sony Vegas Pro 12. This can be used for animating lines, writing text, etc. without the need to keyframe anything at all. This does require a photo editor, which for this I used Photoshop.

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Have you ever tried editing a music video with a multi-camera sequence where you need to sync the two video clips together, but you never get it just right? You zoom in as far as you can on the timeline to move the clip up or down a frame but you just can’t get it right. The clip keeps snapping to the frame boundary and you’re not able to get it synced. By now, you probably pulled a few hairs out and no longer need a haircut! Well, look no further. The snapping of boundaries is caused by having “Quantize to Frames” turned on. It forces edits to snap to the time ruler points in the timeline.

To turn off Quantize to Frames, simply go to, “Options” – “Quantize to Frames”. Click it once to un-check it and disable it. Click it again to check it and enable it. You can also use the shortcut key, “Alt+F8”.

Go ahead try it out, add two video clips stacked on the timeline and move them around. They snap to each frame. Now, turn off “Quantize to Frames”. You’ll notice there’s no more snapping and you’re now able to move the clips around freely.

Vegas does however mention that edits in which do not occur on frame bounderies can produce an undesirable visual result. Therefore, I’d only turn this off when syncing together music videos or any other multi-camera sequences.

Quantize to Frames On:

Notice how the time indicator(highlighted) is sitting directly on a frame boundary. Quantize to Frames is turned on in this example.

Quantize to Frames Off:

Notice how the time indicator(highlighted) is sitting in-between a frame boundary. Quantize to Frames is turned off in this example.

Did you know about this feature? Are there any other “Hidden” features you know about? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Have you ever wondered if there was a way to save all open applications when you log off like you can on the Mac? You can shutdown, logoff, restart your computer and when you log back in, all your applications will re-open. Windows has no built in features for this but I think I found a good alternative. It’s called “Cache My Work”. It basically does all that! Saves open applications and folders when you logoff/restart or shut down your computer and they will then reopen when you log back in!

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In this Photoshop CS5 tutorial, I explain the way I’ve found to create a mosaic out of multiple photos. If you find an easier way of doing this in Photoshop, please let me know in the comments!

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