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Old 15th September 2020, 00:25   #2  |  Link
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I can not recommend cheaper NLEs if you want to handle interlaced material natively.

(Starting with Premiere, then EditStudioPro (nice and easy, but 8bit RGB Engine, using quartz.dll as decoder, visible flaws if you go pixel-peeping), then Canopus Edius (YUV-Engine, not bad, but still 8-bit Engine)...
In the end I had to go for Vegas Pro. But you don't have to.
Only if you intend to turn, free resize, keyframe, morph transitions, animate delicate fonts
then you need a NLE that decodes properly to 32bit float, does all compositing in 32 bit float,
and knows how to handle interlaced material.
And BTW a crossfade is not as trivial in interlaced as one might think...
I consider all this took many developers worldwide along a history of 20 years,
suffering through writing, compiling, and testing many versions with hundreds of builds each,
so I won't expect such be floating around for 99 bucks.)


VirtualDub2 is always worth a consideration,
as long as you can handle your cuts, fades, transitions, stabilizations in Avisynth.

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Furthermore, the Blu-ray standard does not allow 50p/60p videos.
You can have these on Blu-ray, so QTGMC to double source framerate is not necessarily out of the equation:
1280x720@23.976p
1280x720@24.000p
1280x720@50.000p
1280x720@59.94p

If you decide to use a NLE for ease of work and face the codec problem:

Reading from codecs your NLE can't read natively:
You can mount a Avisynth script via PismoFileMount and open it in your NLE.

Writing into codecs your NLE can't see natively:
For 3 well-known NLEs there is a frameserver (debugmode)
which will allow to pipe frames into the encoder of your choice.
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