frizzylee
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Post by frizzylee on Jun 21, 2020 6:51:02 GMT
Discovered I have a CD disk from 2003 that cannot be opened. Have had it to two computer stores that deal with Mac and Windows, but neither could help. Problem is that this disk contains photos of a close friend now deceased I had planned to use in photo book. It occurred to me tonite that, in addition to still images (all unavailable now) I made a video of that trip, too. I loaded up the video and took screenshots to see if I could resurrect something that way. Photos almost all have those horizontal lines that I think are connected to interlacing. I read up about it, but understood little. I did try the gaussian blur filter in PSE. That was the best I could do. I will try posting the before and after. I have a bunch of Topaz SharpenAI, gigapixelAI, etc but that hasn't been much help either.
Anyone had to deal with this? This is the last page in my photo book. I just don't want to send it in for printing without it.
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Post by Sepiana on Jun 21, 2020 12:23:46 GMT
Pat, You could try the suggestion posted by Jeff Arola, Adobe Community Professional, in the thread below. As Adobe removed the De-Interlace filter from Elements (Filter>Video>De-Interlace), he suggests using a FREE 3rd-party plug-in -- Smart De-Interlacer. Hopefully it will solve your problem! De-Interlace Photoshop Elements 18? |
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Post by Sepiana on Jun 21, 2020 19:22:07 GMT
Pat, First of all, my apologies! I completely forgot you are on a Mac. It doesn't look like the plug-in suggested in that Adobe forum thread will work on a Mac. If you check the Compatibility tab on their page, it mentions only Windows. Smart De-InterlacerDo you still have your copy of PSE 6? You could try Filter>Video>De-Interlace. This filter should be available in this version. |
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frizzylee
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Post by frizzylee on Jun 21, 2020 22:18:27 GMT
Hi Sepiana Yes, I found the versions the plug-in would work with were not my versions of Photoshop Elements. I have Photoshop Elements Nineteen (the nine key on my keyboard types as a - instead of the number nine. Don't know what that's about. It just happened.) Anyway, my husband and I were both reading about interlacing, etc. He wandered off after a while. Then out of nowhere MPEG STREAMCLIP popped up. It's in my Dock but I haven't used it in ages. In looking it over I got to thinking that if I were to import the video again using MPEG STREAMCLIP I could check the "deinterlace" box and I saw that I can download individual frames. So that is what I did. I won't know how it worked out until I get busy and do the photo page containing some of these images. At first glance it looks like the issue may be close to being solved, if not completely solved . Below is the image downloaded from the second try video. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SETTING ME OFF ON THE RIGHT PATH.  |
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Post by Sepiana on Jun 22, 2020 2:54:40 GMT
Pat, you are most welcome! I know nothing about de-interlacing but, to my untrained eyes, it looks like there is an improvement. Keep up the good work!
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