[Jeff Pulera]

To expand on Ann’s comments, do you live in a PAL or NTSC country? While frame rate doesn’t matter as much for online/computer viewing, if you wish to make DVD or Blu-ray discs, then you want to stick with the local flavor of frame rate for playback and display compatibility, so that would be my first consideration. Meaning 25fps for PAL, or 29.97 for NTSC.

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[Jeff Pulera]

I know the field thing can get confusing, and people might describe various workflows/methods of applying deinterlacing within Premiere, or interpreting footage or whatever. All I’ve ever done when exporting NTSC or 1080i (both interlaced formats) to H.264 is to export progressive and results look and work fine online and for computer playback. Adobe Media Encoder just does the deinterlacing when export is Progressive.

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[Jeff Pulera]

No, if you choose UPPER or LOWER, that is INTERLACED video. You want Fields = PROGRESSIVE.

You could just select the H.264 > PAL DV export preset, then manually change Field Order to Progressive.

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[Jeff Pulera]

If exporting to H.264, you do not want any interlacing (fields). The .mp4 files will be watched on computers and tablets and their displays are always progressive, so you want to export Progressive.

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[Jeff Pulera]

I believe the response from Tero is on the right track. Analog capture devices from Grass Valley, Matrox, etc. have always had issues capturing from DVD players due to copy protection being inserted into the video output – even if playing a DVD-R that you created yourself! So the copy protection does not need to be on the disc, the DVD player simply adds it to the analog output. Always.

What software do you edit with? If Adobe Premiere, then copy the .vob files from the DVD to your PC hard drive. You can then Import the .vob files into Premiere to edit directly. No “capture” needed.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Encode video clips for Encore using MPEG-2 DVD format, which is an .m2v file. Putting anything else into Encore is looking for problems – it will transcode anything else anyway, so why not give it what it wants?

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[Jeff Pulera]

Not a Vegas user, but in general it’s a good idea to apply an Audio Crossfade to audio clips that butt up to one another, or you WILL get a pop usually. This is my experience in Premiere CC.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jon,

If transcoding .mp4 clips for the purpose of editing them, I would not transcode to .mp4 (H.264) as that is a lossy format. I’d be using a high-quality intermediate such as Cineform or DNxHD which are both available in Premiere/Media Encoder CC if that is what you are using to transcode.

The GoPro Cineform codec is available under the QuickTime format, or choose DNxHD MXF format.

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Hi Luke,

When you do the final export, do NOT check the box for USE PREVIEWS, as this will carry the issue over from the low quality temp render files to the final output.

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[Jeff Pulera]

Put your clips on the timeline. Either click/drag mouse to select all clips or CTRL A, then right-click and UNLINK. Now click/drag to select/highlight just all the audio clips. DELETE. Simple, takes 2 seconds.

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