Hello,

I have kind of a legacy problem:

Several years ago I had some Super 8 cine material transferred professionally to miniDV cassettes. I then imported that DV video as native PAL DV AVI files, i.e. 50i video with a resolution of 720x576 (non-square) pixels.

Since one section of the footage contained a lot of critical dust specks, I needed to remove them by retouching picture by picture. The stills exported from Premiere PRO are de-interlaced (as is the Premiere single-frame preview), but often the dust specks affect two fields on adjacent frames, so even if the problem seems fixed in the preview after importing a retouched still, it is nevertheless visible during playback when that field which was hidden by the deinterlacing becomes part of the interlaced stream again.

Therefore I tried to find a way to extract the individual fields and retouch them.

The following two ffmpeg commands did the trick:

ffmpeg -i ProblemFile.avi -vf field=top Top\ProblemFile_%05d.png    ProblemFileAudio.wav
ffmpeg -i ProblemFile.avi -vf field=bottom Bottom\ProblemFile_%05d.png

This creates one audio file and two sets of sequentially numbered PNG images in the folders Top and Bottom. I can then use Advanced Renamer to adapt the start numbers and the number step of the two sets (00000, 00002, 00004, ...; 00001, 00003, 00005, ...) so that a new folder Merged contains one sinlge set of contiguously numbered images, which are 288 pixels high and represent the individual fields of the DV frames, i.e. have half the frame rate of the original video.

I can then load the required frames into an image editor like Photoshop to retouch the dust specks (a tedious job).

So far, so good. My problem is now that the set of updated PNG images needs to be converted back to an interlaced AVI video file.

After much research and experimentation I found that the following command delivers a useable video file(50i plus sound):

ffmpeg -i ProblemFileAudio.wav -i Merged\ProblemFileFixed_%05d.png -vf tinterlace=0 -aspect 4/3 ProblemFileFixed.dv

However, the result is a QuickTime file, and I need a DV-PAL AVI file for my workflow.

Any ideas how this can be achieved, possibly in just one step?

Many Thanks!

Thomas

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