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Final product has field order issues.
I’ve been putting together a show, originally taped on 8mm and captured using VirtualDub. The videos are then put together and editing with Premiere Pro. I would then use Encore DVD to make the final product.
The first DVD I made was first saved from Premiere as a Quicktime file then loaded into Encore, but when it was burned and played on my DVD Player had a severe problem with field order (the stutter effect, I’m sure you’ve seen it). I then went back into Premiere and exported the project using the Adobe Media Encoder, recreated the DVD (resetting all the chapter marks again, etc) and the DVD played fine… at first. I’m not sure *exactly* where the issue is – on my HDTV it plays with no field issues, but on everyone else’s it stutters (I’m guessing it’s because my TV is progressive).
There are about four options in Premiere for reading a clips field order. I can reverse it, or I can use the flicker removal, and two others I can’t remember.
Is anyone familiar with this problem and can point me in the best direction for getting this DVD produced for maximum compatibility, or is the something inherently wrong with my entire process?
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I had this problem with the first DVD I authored. I exported an interlaced video with the (default) progressive setting. It plays back fine on my progressive DVD player, but looks jittery on a non-progressive players. Make sure that you are not using a progressive setting on your export settings.
Just a thought,
Scott
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The first export I did wasn’t progressive, and that was the one that had the field order problem on the HDTV. The second was rendered progressive Adobe Media Encoder, which appeared to work on my progressive TV, of course.
The biggest problem with all of this is that the only DVD player in my house that will play burned DVDs is attached to my HDTV, so I don’t have a standard tv to monitor this on. Ugh.
(It’s frustrating that the only way to test to see if the video is correct is to burn (waste) a DVD, then move to another location to play the disc… so you can see why I’m anxious to find out what’s wrong with a minimum amount of testing :-D)
So, you’re saying to render without a progressive setting? If I’m going to do that, should I reverse the fields on the individual clips?
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“So, you’re saying to render without a progressive setting? If I’m going to do that, should I reverse the fields on the individual clips?”
Premiere Pro should default to a lower field first setting when you output a video. If it’s interlaced coming in, any processing / de-interlacing is going to cause artifacts of some kind (Stair Stepping, Strobing, Ect). In your case I would recommend authoring the DVD interlaced and let your HDTV handle the de-interlacing (if it’s set up to do so). This way anyone with a standard DVD player not set up for progressive will play back correctly. On my setup my Sony (DVP-NS300) will ALWAYS pick the wrong field order when playing back PremierePro DVD’s in progressive mode. My Toshiba (RD-xs32 – Progressive Compatible) plays them back just fine.
Hope this helps.
Scott
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