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Any harm going the “progressive” route when capturing and exporting?
Hey guys,
Here is the deal. My brother sent me some old vhs tapes to capture for him of old home movies.
My vcr is on the fritz, so I managed to borrow a nice JVC deck that has the DV port on it, so its nice to be able to just plug the firewire into my computer and go!
So my question is…
when bringing it into Premiere Pro CS 5.5, will it hurt the quality or degrade it at all by choosing the “progressive” setting?
My 2 goals for these tapes are to get it on a dvd for my brother and to save a master copy for editing later on.
The reason I ask this is, I tried keeping in on “lower” while capturing and putting it on lower while exporting out, and being that I do not have a tv monitor to check, when previewing through quicktime, windows media player, etc. there is “jaggies” and it drives me crazy!
So I did a test exporting out “progressive” and it looked good.
So can I set on progressive and everything will be alright? If so, does the setting have to be the same for capturing and exporting? Because while I captured the tape on lower, I exported as progressive and it looked fine.
Finally, best setting for creating a master copy so I can have to edit later etc, and for archival purposes? I did Quicktime animation and my 2 hour tape wound up being 190 GB!!!
Help!
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7 Replies
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If progressive looks good on your computer then odds are it will look good on a TV. I don’t know for sure but it’s probably throwing one of the fields away which will give it a 30p look which I personally like. I would look at a frame with a lot of motion and if those frames look OK like with no obvious interlacing then your probably good.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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The footage is interlaced. You are going to DVD. Capture it as interlaced is best.
Interlaced footage does not look great on a computer screen. It will look correct when playing the DVD on a TV.
Chris Tompkins
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True but if he can’t monitor it then how’s he gonna know if he gets the field order right. I’ve de-interlaced tons of stuff for national television looks fine, and a safe way to avoid reversing the fields which is the worst thing you can do. But in the end if you can’t test it you’re in the dark.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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It’s NTSC Lower Fields SD.
Capture it as so.
Compress it as so.
Burn it to DVD as so.Playback in DVD player – all is well.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Ok, so once I do it lower, get it to dvd, etc. how should I render out a “master copy” if you will, say to my external drive so if I want to do editing later etc?
What is the best format to save it out as? AVI? Quicktime animation? H.264?
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On a mac? Then DV50 would fine for a digital Master – Archive of old VHS footage.
On a Win? – AVI, codec- not sure.
Not .h264 though. That is best for delivery.Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
thanks for all the help guys!
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