Animating stills on Premier Pro

[Tim Kurkoski]

Right-click on the images, Field Options, choose Always Deinterlace.

That may help with a good deal of them, but it may not solve it for all. You may want to do a search of the CreativeCow forums on this one, as well as the Internet at large. Field issues with still images is a common problem. You may have to use a combination of techniques- deinterlacing, blurring, color shifting, etc. Read up on it and report back after trying some of the techniques.

[Terry Steen]

Hi Max,
I found Canopus Imaginate 2.0 does an excellent job of animating Still pictures and you can add audio to the project, when complete render it and export as an AVI which is compatible with Premiere, Ive had no problems with these animated stills which have been included in regular Premiere projects together with video footage.

[J. D. mack]

Here are some thoughts.

1. What is the resolution of the photos? If they were scanned at 72 DPI and a max size of 720 x 480, then any zooming will cause noticiable pixilation. If this is this case, try upping the scanning resolution to 150 dpi with a max size of 1440 x 960.

2. Have you tried selecting “Video Options – Field Options – Flicker Removal” for each image?

3. I am a big fan of the Moving Picture plug in, which can be found at http://www.stagetools.com. You can download a free demo to see if this will work for you. If you plan on doing a lot of photo video presentations, then the cost is more than justified.

J. D.

[Wes While]

Thanks for all your help guys, I realize this must be a common problem, so I apologize if you’ve heard it before. I just realized that I forgot to mention that the images in question are all shots from a digital camera, and I am resizing them within the program. Could that have anything to do with my problem? Should I resize them all in Photoshop?

Thanks again.