Frame hold on SD only holds one field

[Ann Bens]

Right click on the clip: Field Options / Always Deinterlace.

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[Michael Klaumann]

I tried that, doesn’t work. It looks worse than Flicker Removal. It just looks like one field being held with the other field missing so very jagged.

[Myron Vazquez]

Are you just seeing this on your computer monitor or also on an external broadcast monitor?

Try going into your wrench menu of your Program Monitor and toggle between:
Display First Field
Display Second Field
and Display Both Fields and see if that helps.

~Myron

[Michael Klaumann]

I’m seeing it in both places, computer and external broadcast monitor. It looks the same when paused as when playing no matter what setting, first, second or both. So it’s somehow throwing away the other field.

[Kevin Brunswick]

I am having the same issue. I record writing on screen and cut the videos into short educational pieces. We often use freeze frames between moments of writing on screen. We record the output of the computer as prores 442 1920x1080i with AJA Kipro Rack. I am editing the files natively in Premiere Pro CC and I am using Frame Hold frequently. The issue is visible in the program window and in a masterfile export. At worst the writing looks jaggedy, and so far it looks best when using flicker removal on the clip, but the resolution is obviously lower than the adjacent video clips.

Has anyone come up with a work around for this?

Kevin Brunswick
Educational Media Specialist
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and
Harvard Medical School

[Peter Garaway]

This is as designed, doing otherwise wouldn’t actually ‘hold’ but jitter if there is motion. We have plans to help this workflow in the future but for now, the best workaround I’m aware of is the following,

1. Park the CTI on the frame you want to hold
2. Go to, File> Export> Media
3. From the Export Settings dialog, select Tiff as the format and change the Field Order to match that of the file
4. Uncheck the ‘Export As Sequence’ checkbox
5. Export

The exported still will have both video fields.

Hope this gives you the results you need. Please file a feature request for the workflow you would like to see.

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Michael Klaumann]

Actually it’s not doing what the menu item says “Add Frame Hold” ‘Frame Hold” not field hold. Premiere is doing a field hold in an interlaced sequence. This is a bug, professionals know how to deal with the ‘jitter’ because there is not always motion in an interlaced frame if it originated as 24 frame material. Feature request? This is a bug.