How to Make Video Look Like Film Using BCC 5 FxPlug Filters

(1) BCC Deinterlace

• Go to the Effects Tab and twirl down the Video Filters group
• Twirl down the BCC 5 Effects group

• Drag the BCC Deinterlace filter from this list directly onto the imported video clip in the FCP timeline.
• Double click the clip in the timeline to move it into the FCP Source Window.
• Click on the Filters tab in the Source Window - the BCC Deinterlace filter should be present.
• Select Only Deinterlace from the Operation pop-up
• Set the Input Field Order to Lower Field First

The clip will now behave as 30p instead of 30i, displaying a full progressive image for every frame. This will not emulate a real world scenario though as every frame should not be clean if the clip was originally shot on film and passed through the telecine process. We need to have both full and interlaced frames to emulate 3:2 pulldown. to achieve this result, do the following:

• Go back to the BCC Deinterlace filter
• Select Simulate Pulldown from the Operations pop-up

The Pulldown pop-up selector can be left at it's default setting of WWSSW, which translates into Whole frame, Whole frame , Single field , Single field, Whole frame, and refers to the information contained in each frame. This sequence of WWSSW is NTSC standard.

More likely as not you will find yourself having to adjust only one parameter in the BCC Deinterlace filter. The algorithms in this filter are so powerful that for most cases you simply apply it to the clip that you want to affect and then set the field and or pulldown order. If after applying the filter and at the default setting you are still seeing motion artifacts (video combing) in the image, try moving the Motion Sensitivity parameter closer to 100, which should clear up any remaining motion artifacts in the clip. When making adjustments to this parameter is is often helpful to set the filter Operation pop-up selector to View Motion Mask so that you can see how much information from the clip you are feeding into the filter for processing. In this mode, white pixels are subject to alteration by the filter while black pixels are ignored.

• Ensure that the Operation poop-up has been set to Simulate Pulldown
• Twirl up the filter parameter listing by clicking on the disclosure arrow beside the filter name.

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