New Video Early Access: CD / Interlacing

Captain! I have a question! If, in a CD/ video, you mention a topic that doesn't have the card animation, but you end up making a whole video about the topic, what would happen? Would you just link the card anyway?

Strobe warning was unobtrusive, and thumbnail looks great. Thanks for all your awesome videos!!

Katie Lacy

I think it's great you're branching out along with with the regular debunking.

James Steinberg

Release it as is. No one would benefit from a warning. It would go unnoticed. This is nothing major anyway. This discussion is riduculous.

Navon Demhier

I'm loving these videos, Captain. The way you visualize all of these makes it so clear, I've shown them to friends who didn't quite understand when I tried explaining these issues and after seeing the video it clicks for them. One note about this video, though, is that I wish you had shown a third option for deinterlacing which I find the best of all, especially when working with 60i footage that you want to keep the feeling of, that high framerate, soap opera effect (not to mention keeping as much of the original information and resolution as possible): bobbing. I think that it not being at the end could be conducive to people who don't know any better to think those are the two and only options. I see untreated deinterlaced footage EVERYWHERE and it's very annoying. That and stretched footage are so hard to watch. Anyways, that's what I felt when watching the video. Not sure if you can or would want to update the video, but I loved it nevertheless. Thanks!

Pato Crioyo

I really didn't think the strobe scene is severe enough to warrant an ON SCREEN warning, but if the percentage of you here suggesting it is representative of the general audience, I guess I better add one and re-upload.

Captain Disillusion

Epic video

I think these were called 'progressive images' back in the day and, if I remember right, it's possible to turn the feature on for PNG and JPEG too.

quarridors

Captain D is consistently one of the best things on the internet.

nooooddy

Do you think we are going to be stuck with all these leftover glitches and visual artifacts from old video formats and systems forever, or will we eventually standardise sufficiently that it'll no longer be a problem?

Richard Neilsen

The CRT Animation/Explanation is outstanding, I am more likely to link to your video to explain that than to explain interlacing ;) The thumbnail irritates me, because interlacing does not (usually?) shift red/green against each other but full colored lines as you also show in the video. Also there are now way better deinterlacers than you show at the end, which also take into account temporal information and come quite close to flawless video. That the part I disliked the most, that it is presented here as an insolvable problem.

Macros

Epilepsy warning?

Mr_FJ

Outstanding as usual, these illustrations are top notch! Also miss the classic format, but this series is awesome to link people to when they don't understand the basic video concepts!

Kilrah

Very well-explained, Cap! Interlacing has always been a huge pet peeve of mine; thanks for giving it the spotlight!

Yet another great video! I am about to start a small business digitizing old tapes! So the bit at the end how to "fix" interlacing is VERY helpful in helping me know how to restore some personal ones, so thanks!

Great video! I learned a lot. I think you’re correct that changing the right side of the thumbnail might be a good idea, it is cool looking as is, but could be more striking. And whichever video format you choose to do next will be welcomed by your fans :)

Katie Lacy

The strobe effect at 1:58 is very intense, even for someone without epilepsy it was too painful to look at, it was pretty funny so I can see why it's included but I don't think it's a great idea, assuming people will check the description is pretty risky.

Sgtpanda

I used to work for a software company as product manager. One aspect of that was writing an explanation of our "deinterlace" feature for the general public. Mine wasn't remotely as funny as yours. (By the way, my ex-employer had a deinterlacing feature in their video conversion software 15 years ago. Don't try to charge too much for the plugin.)

Carl Fink

Love it! But please check the cut around 4:17, I can see some awkward mouthing of dialogue there. It seems to cut a bit too soon.

JoeyVFX

As a web developer, I always think of GIFs when I think of interlacing. Clearly video came first, but for GIFs, it was a way to give users with low bandwidth a general idea of what the image would look like before the missing lines filled in. Fascinating explanation.

Cassandra Gelvin

Whether or not I already know the subject, I absolutely enjoy the video and your excellent way of explaining things.

Having your make-up go into a timeline is ingenious. Very creative :)

Navon Demhier

Which one is it? It's harder and harder to remember where I left all those links so I can go back and add them, lol. This was a bad idea, what was I thinking!

Captain Disillusion

Came here to post this. The “ahh, flicker!” part at 1:58 may need to be adjusted.

Dan Kuehling

Watch out for potential epilepsy issues with the flickering for the public

Excellent!

Michael Aichlmayr

Just as I was watching another CD episode that had a link to Interlacing, the missing CD for Interlacing drops in my inbox! Good stuff, actually learned a lot from this one!

Great video. You are fantastic at explaining complex concepts in an easy to understand way.