P2 Progressive Footage looks interlaced in Premiere Pro CC

[Jan Pfitzner]

Did you try to view the footage with another tool like FCP or Avid MC? If you want, you could upload one of those clips in question and I could throw them in different NLEs.

[Chris Tompkins]

yes, it might help to post a short clip here.

Chris

[Ht Davis]

Are you sure this is progressive footage? If it looks interlaced, place it in an interlaced sequence of your own setup (no drag and drop to create one; do it yourself). If it plays back normal, you have interlaced footage.

Also, some codecs and formats use an interlaced main stream, with a compressed stack file of the secondary field footage. This makes it appear to be interlaced when playing back if the system cannot read the stack properly.

The bottom line here is that you need to ingest the files into something readable, with the right metadata tags for formatting and playback. Absent of any evidence other than “it looks interlaced”, you either have:
Interlaced footage
Progressive footage with a secondary field stack that causes interlacing
Damaged data

Try:
Converting with the Camera included software
Converting with Handbrake, and setting it to output interlaced footage with 2x as many frames
Placing the footage in a new sequence set to Lower Field First interlace, then go to program monitor, right click, and then to fields and select from the options there to get a better look at it.

The first will probably get you a useable file output.
The second will let you try to spread the fields out properly and see if they are interlaced
The third will allow you to try to run a “Progressive?” video as Interlaced footage, and see if maybe something went wrong somewhere. I know that most P2 cameras only shoot in 480 or 1080 interlaced. They are Television Broadcast Style cameras, which cut down on data transfer by using interlaced footage instead of progressive. It allows them to send the same “Size” image, but run the fields twice as fast as frames, and use the refresh rates on TV sets (with field blending\antialiasing and deinterlacing) to make the whole thing seamless.

[Tim Kolb]

Lots of info in the thread, though the fact remains that Faraz made a sequence by dragging the clip onto the icon to create a matching sequence…the settings look like 720p DVCProHD to me. 720p is always progressive, so there would be no sequence preset for interlaced 720…

This is just really weird. Treating and retreating the footage with these various extra steps can get you through the project, but the fact remains that this is screwed up…

Perhaps try quitting PPro, clear the prefs on startup, and create a new project and import a couple clips in and see if you get similar results?

There is absolutely no question that there is a problem here…I can’t see that you’ve done anything to cause this, Faraz.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR

[Mark Jackson]

I have a suggestion,

Click on the video clip in the sequence, then right click and select “field order” then select “Flicker Removal”

I am not claiming for this to be the “correct” way but it helped me fix a similar problem i had on some stubborn footage a while ago.

Cheers

[Annie Kuhn]

So this is in late response to your efforts, but something simple that may be causing the issue is your playback quality. On the bottom right hand corner below your clip in the window there is a dropdown that has options for “Full, 1/2, 1/4, 1/16” I had a very similar problem and realized that i simply had it set to “1/4” so the video was only playback at 1/4 of the original quality. My footage looked interlaced as well, and was choppy and overall looked terrible (i was also filming in progressive 1920 x 1080) and this fixed the quality entirely. not sure if that could even be the problem, but it might be worth a shot.