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BlackMagic PAL – Upper field first ???
Hi all,
Just a silly question to enlighten my 3 surviving brain cells…
I recently bought a BMD EXtreme card and hit it off right away with a PAL project to impor, re-edit and dump to DVD a project for a client.
I noticed that :
1) the settings for Blackmagic PAL are UPPER FIELD first…
2) when you export to DVD via premiere Pro, the PAL preset states LOWER FIELD first.
Caused some interlacing problems as you can guess.
So what is the solution? De-interlace the footage as I did with mixed results or change the field dominance ?Thanks for your advice.
Marc Bauwens
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4 Replies
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You have to make your own transcoding preset in Encore. File>Transcode>Edit Project Transcode Presets, then choose one of the presets and in Summary section click “video” and change field order Lower to Upper. Click OK and give new name to your preset.
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Actually I use Premiere a lot to output direct to DVD, but the process is similar.
Are you sure this will playback on PAL systems without problems?
I thought that PAL was lower field first ?Thanks for more information.
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Yes it’s similar. Sorry I did’t read carefully your first post, I always use Encore myself. You can find many posts asking upper lower field questions here.
This is one.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=124&postid=856096
And Blackmagic support note:
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=119 -
Only NTSC is always lower field first in SD.
PAL is upper field first when using SDI or analoge signals.
Formats like DV, DVCPRO and MPEG-2 for Video-DVD are
lower field first in PAL and NTSC.
Sony IMX is upper field first in PAL.
Digital Video Brodcasting (DVB) in MPEG-2 is upper field first in PAL.1080i is upper field first for PAL and NTSC.
When editing in PAL with upper field first and output is a Video-DVD
with lower field first you have to swap fields. In many encoding-programs
this is a option. Apples compressor will do this automatically when the
incoming and outgoing field dominance is set correctly.
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