What’s wrong with field order in Premiere?

[Aanarav Sareen]

What are your export settings? Does this also happen when you use a defauly PPRO preset (not the ones provided with Blackmagic or Matrox)

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Manololp]

Hello. Standard PAL DV is lower field, but Matrox codecs (also Matrox DV)and BM codecs are upper field.
Perhaps this help.

[Craig Howard]

Just to confuse the issue

Matrox claim that they use upper field first because of a techy book called the ‘BlueBook’. As far as I could tell without buying the $400 item, the book did not refer to NLEs but anyway thats Matroxs take and they are sticking to it.

Matrox Presets in PremierePro conform to Upper field first.

Still seems strange that they (both) built a system / application that should have been developed in a “working relationship” and this is the outcome. (Maybe its not so strange ?)

[Peter Gruden]

I did export DV video using Blackmagic codec with both Lower, Upper field and No fields setting, and there is no difference between rendered video files. I checked the same frame in all three rendered videos in AE and they look exactly the same on video monitor.

I repeated the test with Blackmagic 8 bit video source which I exported to BM 10 bit video, and again, it does not make any difference, the fields are ok either with Lower or Upper field setting. Premiere just seem to keep the field setting of the incoming video.

File type = Quick Time
Compressor = Blackmagic 8 bit or 10 bit (uncompressed).

If I export the same video from After Effects I can change fileds both on interpret footage or in rendering window, and I can see the result immediately. In Premiere field settings just don’t seem to do anything.

I tend to find the right settings for each combination of software/hardware that I use, and it works everywhere except in Premiere.

thanks,
Peter