true motion.md

True Motion de-interlacing

True Motion is MediaKind's motion-compensated de-interlacing technology. It converts interlaced video to progressive video using advanced de-interlacing, cross-scaling, and inverse telecine filters, and doubles the frame rate of interlaced sources to produce smooth content for OTT players.

When the input is progressive, enabling True Motion has no effect. Live Encoder does not double frames for progressive sources.

Frame rate conversion

For interlaced inputs, True Motion doubles the frame rate. For example, a 1080i30 input becomes a 1080p60 output.

Ingest OTT Configuration Output
1080i30 1080 True Motion 1080p60
1080p30 1080 True Motion 1080p30
1080i30 720p True Motion 720p60
1080p30 720p True Motion 720p30

Benefits

For end users: Video does not present interlace artifacts on progressive displays.

For operators: Content is adapted to internet TV constraints without loss of fine detail.

Enable True Motion

  1. Open the service configuration and go to the Media Processing tab.
  2. In the Video Pre Filtering section, enable the True Motion option.
  3. Select the target OTT configuration (for example, 1080 True Motion or 720p True Motion).
  4. Select Save and continue or Save and exit to apply the changes.