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DE-INTERLACING IN AFTER EFFECTS

METHOD 1: PS-DEINTERLACE

The most straightforward way to make full frames from interlaced footage is to eliminate all upper or lower fields. This leaves an incomplete image, which is then reconstructed by either duplicating or interpolating the field that was kept. In After Effects, there's the 'old' de-interlace filter, ported from Photoshop, that does exactly this. Basically you're throwing out half your vertical resolution - not good.

ORIGINAL FIELDS	DUPLICATED	INTERPOLATED
ORIGINAL FIELDS	ROLL-OVER TO SEE ORIGINAL

And as you can see, although the moving parts of the image improve quite a bit, the static parts of the images lose a lot of detail.

METHOD 1: PS-Deinterlace
METHOD 2: Blending the fields
METHOD 3: Nudge the footage
METHOD 4: The After Effects way
METHOD 5: ReelSmart FieldsKit

Summary