A question about converting my old PAL DV movies into digital

[Jeff Pulera]

I know the field thing can get confusing, and people might describe various workflows/methods of applying deinterlacing within Premiere, or interpreting footage or whatever. All I’ve ever done when exporting NTSC or 1080i (both interlaced formats) to H.264 is to export progressive and results look and work fine online and for computer playback. Adobe Media Encoder just does the deinterlacing when export is Progressive.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jon Wendz]

Sorry to resurrect and old post, but I ended up not finishing this thread for university reasons (I’m finished with all that now!)

So I’m nearly there with this codec/interlacing thing.

– I’ve used the H.264 format, selecting PAL DV as the profile;
– I’ve hit “Match Source”, but amended the field order to ‘Progressive’ and the Frame Rate to ’50’ (I tried progressive at 25 and it wasn’t smooth);
– Bitrate wise, this is a bit more tricky but from reading the forum I realise having too much bit rate is effectively a waste given the source. I’m just using the preset of VBR 1 pass and 3/6 for the target and maximum;
– Maximum render depth and quality are on;
(See screenshot)

My questions:

1. I cannot tell you how many samples I’ve exported with varying bitrates – I can’t tell that much difference unless I go stupidly low. I’m guessing 3/6 is okay? (I only ask because I only intend on digitizing my 60 odd videos once) ☺
2. If I’m making my video progressive with 50fps, the time interpolation I suppose becomes relevant. I’ve read various threads on here regarding this, but I can’t quite spot the difference between frame sampling, blending and optical flow. Or, is this not used simply because the interlaced fields are just thrown into their own individual frames?
3. The original source has kind of a funny border so I’ve set a crop to it. This then scales the source – is this much a problem quality wise?
4. Is there anything I’ve missed before I start the mammoth export?

Thanks all, I really do appreciate your help!

Jon

[Ann Bens]

What do you want your end product to be. That determines the output.
DVD, pc, youtube?

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[Jon Wendz]

Great quality MP4 files that I can archive on Dropbox, and share with family for their PC use. Maybe YouTube one day…

[Jon Wendz]

Hmm still struggling to get this right. Any other ideas? :/