General use
Deinterlace digital movies (various ways)
The main window is always open. In the various tabs you can make all settings for a project.
The status window displays the state of the application. This can be "inactive" (no project), "file dialog in front", "processing"
etc.
The log window contains some basic application messages. Startup, preferences and quit are logged.
If you start more projects than the maximum set in the General Preferences, the most recent ones end up in a waiting queue.
Presets contain saved settings. A number of standard presets is provided by the application. These cannot be removed.
You can run compiled Applescripts from the Scripts menu. To add or delete a script, choose "Edit..." If you add a script it is copied to the Application Support folder in the user library.
Standards conversion (scale and change frame rate, for
example PAL<->NTSC)
Inverse telecine (NTSC -> film)
Change field dominance (top field first <-> bottom field first)
Reinterlace (create an interlaced movie from one or two progressive files)
Crop, shift, add edge
Simple color correction (adjust brightness, contrast, saturation)
Remove jaggies, reduce noise (simple temporal filter).
Change encoding (gamma, video range/full range, compressor)
Fast/slow motion (new), reverse movie
Progressive/interlaced in/out.
Lossless M-JPEG field handling
Copy other tracks and metadata
Deinterlaced playback (at double frame rate, like the high quality mode of DVD Player)
Use cmd-O for deinterlaced playback, press "Choose..." in the Input pane if you want to convert a movie file.
Settings for a project are saved as defaults for the next project.
If you want to process only part of a movie you need to create a reference movie first (using QT Player Pro for example).
When you set up a project the preferred order is: open movie, make input settings, make project settings, make color settings, make output settings, make export settings.
Normally any order works but be sure to check the settings in the preferred order before pressing OK.
Several projects can be carried out at the same time. If you want to create a batch, do a multiple open or drag multiple files on the input file area in the input tab or the application icon in the dock or in the Finder.
You can use AppleScript to perform various tasks like moving windows on the screen. The most common type of script converts a batch of movies using a total preset.
Suspend/resume is possible. "Direct write" projects can be resumed even after application quit (or power blackout).
Previewing: the input and output movie can be previewed in a window that can be opened from the input/output drawer. Most features can be previewed.
The "keep result file after project cancel" preference lets you convert the beginning only of a movie as a test. You can also test convert 10 sec of the movie by clicking the Test Render button in the output preview.
In addition there are a few special states like "opening movie", "connecting to server", etc. These are really project states which are indicated here because they can make the user interface slow temporarily.
Extensive info about a project is logged as well as start, suspend/resume events and finish. Sometimes a few intermediate results are logged.
Errors are also recorded in the log.
If scrolling misbehaves, make a text selection and try again.
The log file in home/library/logs can also be viewed with MLTETextEditor.
In this window you can view this queue, change the order or delete projects from the queue.
BTW swap only works if the movies have been sorted according to start order.
You can make your own presets, which are saved in the folder "home/library/application support/jes/deinterlacer/presets/". If you want to make them available locally to all users or over a network you must copy them manually to these domains.
Presets can be "total" (all panes + preferences) or subpresets (input/project/color/output/preferences).
A total preset may not be compatible with the input movie (for example, dualMonoToStereo does not apply to movies that don't have two mono sound tracks). In this case we set the latent value of the checkbox.
By the same token subpresets may not be compatible with settings in other panes. For example "progressive" in the input pane is incompatible with project kind "deinterlace". In this case the project kind is changed.
To manage presets, click on the "Presets..." button at the bottom of the main dialog. A window opens with two lists and a description field.
Click "New" to create a preset from current settings in the main dialog.
In order to set a preset in the main dialog make sure only one total preset or subpreset is selected.
To view the description of a preset, again make sure only one is selected. If one total preset is selected its subpreset is described. Else if one subpreset is selected its description is shown. Else the current settings in the main dialog are displayed.
To change the name of a preset, click on it and type a new name.
To select a preset, cmd-click or shift-click on the name. Cmd-click to add/remove a single preset to/from the selection, shift-click to extend it. You can also drag to make a selection.
To unselect all click outside any text in the list.
To delete presets, select one or more presets and click "Delete". The presets are only deleted from the "user domain" (home folder).
Scripts in the local or network domain can also be run.