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563Final Cut Pro User Guide
• Floor: The default setting. Final Cut Pro rounds down to the nearest integer during
its calculation to match the clip’s frame rate to the project’s frame rate.
• Nearest Neighbor: Final Cut Pro rounds to the nearest integer during its calculation
to match the clip’s frame rate to the project’s frame rate. This setting reduces
artifacts at the expense of visual stuttering. Rendering is required.
• Frame Blending: Creates in-between frames by blending individual pixels of
neighboring frames. Slow-motion clips created with Frame Blending appear to play
back more smoothly than those created with the Floor or Nearest Neighbor setting.
This setting provides better reduction of visual stuttering, but you may see some
visual artifacts. Rendering is required.
• Optical Flow: A type of frame blending that uses an optical flow algorithm to create
new in-between frames. Final Cut Pro analyzes the clip to determine the directional
movement of pixels and then draws portions of the new frames based on the optical
flow analysis. This setting usually provides the greatest reduction in visual stuttering
and artifacts. Rendering is required, and takes longer than for the other frame-
sampling methods.
Add an interlaced clip to a non-interlaced (progressive) project
Some video formats use an interlaced scanning method that divides a video frame into
two fields, each consisting of alternating odd and even lines that are scanned at different
times.
If you want to add an interlaced clip to a progressive project, you can have Final Cut Pro
deinterlace the clip so that it plays at full resolution, free of the alternating jagged lines
associated with interlaced clips in progressive projects.
1. In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
• In the browser, select the interlaced clips you want to add to a progressive project.
• In the timeline, select interlaced clips you’ve added to a progressive project.
2. If the inspector isn’t already shown, do one of the following:
• Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
• Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
3. Click the Info button at the top of the inspector.