FCP defield tool

[Yossarian!]

I've posted this over at the Apple forums, but thought I'd give it a try here too:

Can anyone recommend a good plugin for FCP to combine fields and create a frame? To clarify, I'm not after a deinterlace tool that simply copies one field and discards the other - instead I need something to turn each field into a frame and then combine them, like the Defield tool on Flame.

Cheers

[sgr]

maybe there will be someting at Pluginz (http://www.pluginz.com/category/62?from=rlist&genre=6&type=2) or fxplugfx (http://www.fxplugfx.com/forum/) I could not see a FCP section on Plugin.com so... well maybe it helps.

[Yossarian!]

Thanks, in the end I found a couple of good resources for it I thought i'd report back here with.

There's a plugin for FCP I purchased for USD$100 called Standards Convertor which does a pretty reasonable job at converting within FCP, plus it has a good amount of options to play with. Available here: http://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm

I also came across a really good page explaining the Cinema Tools/Compressor method. It produced excellent results. Page here: http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/secrets/marchcreate/index.php?pf=1

edit: fixed second link, sry. Just watch what its doing to the overall duration in this method.

[el_diablo]

Second link is prolly wrong... Could you fix it? I needed to do this recently.

[sgr]

Nice that will be handy for feature reference - thanks for posting back.
@el_diablo: all the links seem to work fine with me which one was you talking about - my second or Yossarian!'s ?!

[Yossarian!]

My link, see edit

[beaker]

My new favorite is one called JES Deinterlacer. You need it if your using a camera that does 24p under HDV because FCP won't do it by default without Cinematools/Compressor, which is much slower way.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html

[Yossarian!]

Thanks for the heads up about the JES tool - I had no idea it existed, and free as well!

edit: just realised my second link had nothing to do with field removal at all, apologies - I was in another headspace altogether.

[beaker]

NP, just found it the other day on dvinfo.net. I captured files out of my new HV20 which supports 24p but FCP doesn't have native inverse telecine in the timeline for 30i to 24p, only the other way around.