Problem with interlacing

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tom,

We’re going to need some details before anyone can help. Please share the following –

Format of SOURCE video, incl. frame rate, for instance “AVCHD 1080i 29.97”

Editing Sequence settings used in Premiere

Export settings in AME

If you can post screen grabs of any of this, very helpful

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Tom Kennedy]

Thanks Jeff,
I’m using four different types of clips in my project, two archival footage and two different interviews shot by two different people.

The first archival footage clip is mpg 25fps 720×576
The second archival footage clip is .mov 25fps 720×576
The first interview footage clip is .mov 25fps 1024×576
The second interview footage clip is .wmv 25fps 1024×576

The editing sequence settings are DV Pal, 25fps, 720×576

Export settings are H.264, pal, 1280×720, 25fps, upper field first

Here is a screen shot of the sequence settings

Here is a screen shot of the export

I hope this is helpful, I’m thinking it must be something to do with the order of the fields but I can’t figure it out having tested multiple export settings.

Cheers

[Jeff Pulera]

720p is always progressive, not sure why it would even give you an option for upper or lower field. Any time you are encoding for the web or computer viewing, you ALWAYS want Progressive, since computer displays are not interlaced.

Change FIELDS to NONE, that should do it!

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Tero Ahlfors]

Your sequence settings are DV PAL which is lower field first and you’re trying to export it with upper field first. Why is that?

[Carole Jones]

Hi Jeff,
you have previously helped me a great deal, tried to find you and did….:-)
could you please tell me how to drag multiple clips from a sequence back to a bin, as otherwise I have a big chaos….I originally did it to add audio to video, it took me days….
hope you dont ask me to do a workaround as i really am used to do it that way from the bin to the timeline…
thxs a lot…..if you cant helpt, thanx anyway;-)

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Tom,

Curious – your source clips are all SD, but you are exporting to HD. What is the destination for these vids? You may be losing some quality by upscaling if you don’t need to. The 1024×576 setting is the square-pixel version of SD widescreen, as matches two of your source clips.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers