… which reminds me, there’s a recent Ideas thread for an option to fill in missing frames, in which I’ve commented there and on a previous occasion.
Well, scene change detection would of course require TVAI to identify sudden changes in frame content - which is exactly what would be needed to pick up ‘missing frames’ in a dynamic scene, but with different settings. Big scene changes for a real scene change, very small changes for a missing frame which, once identified, could be interpolated.
TVAI would have to continuously monitor the rate of content change from frame to frame and be able to pick it up if that rate suddenly increased then immediately returned to its previous rate. So it might be a slow process and usable only for short clips but still, we’d have the option.
The frame preceding a sudden jump could then be marked/noted by TVAI and the next (missing) frame interpolated either at the same time or in a subsequent run. It wouldnt work on static scenes with no movement but that shouldn’t be an issue as missing frames then are not usually noticeable anyway: movement is the problem.
I believe this could be done, with controls to adjust the degree of sensitivity as with removing dups, and it would be an important enhancement for many people who are sensitive to missing frames as well as dups - both being especially annoying when using Apollo or Chronos. I linked to a couple of examples of scripts intended to do just this, in the ideas thread.
So please, Topaz, let’s have both! Scene change detection first, and then missing frame detection and interpolation.