[Mario Piche]

Hi Jeff,

I did some tests shooting in 24p mode, but when I capture in Premiere, the clips are 1440×1080, 29.97 fps, (1.33), upper fields mpeg-2… as if everything had been shot in 30p mode.

I’m going to get FCP soon, so hopefully I won’t have these issues anymore, since it has more options to capture video than Premiere.

So, is it possible to have a progressive output even if it is for standard TV broadcast? I heard it doesn’t matter, that is just theory after all, because the video is transmitted interlaced anyway, even if the TV network received a progressive or interlaced output. If this is true, I could export everything progressive, right?

Thanks for your help.

Mario

[Mario Piche]

But how do I “recover the frames” to make it progressive again? I heard this process was something different to deinterlacing.

[Mario Piche]

I created a DSLR 720p60 sequence (since most of the footage is 720p) and exported to h.264, while trying to match the output as much as possible (640×480, 59.94 fps, progressive, etc.). For the interlaced clips I selected the “always deinterlace” option and I think I got good results overall.

Then I created a DV NTSC and exported to identical settings. I don’t have an interlaced monitor now to check if everything really worked, but it does look fine on my iMac.

Do you think I’ll have any issues with the fields for putting the progressive and interlaced footage together in a DV NTSC timeline?

[Mario Piche]

Thanks again Jeff. It is a thorny issue indeed.

Ok, so it seems I’ll just forget about working this material in a 24p timeline.

I just want to slow everything down a bit and enhance the color to make it all look better. I was thinking about using Magic Bullet Mojo (for color correction) and do time remapping at 60-80%.

The 59.94 material is progressive though, that’s how it appears when I interpret the footage. I’ve read you can combine progressive and interlaced footage if the output is interlaced, but if the output is progressive, the interlaced footage needs to be deinterlaced, right?

I just don’t know how to deal with 2 different types of footage that need 3 different outputs (NTSC, PAL and Internet). Should I do a “master edit” in a DV NTSC timeline, and the paste it to a DV PAL timeline and paste another to a DV NTSC timeline (and change to progressive scan right before I export)?

Thank you kindly for all the assistance.

[Mario Piche]

Thanks a lot Jeff, I really appreciate it.

But what if I have some clips at 59.94fps and some others at 29.97fps? Would it work putting all together in a 24P timeline and then export each one to DV NTSC, DV PAL and DV NTSC (progressive)?

I’m just a bit confused about working with interlaced and progressive clips together that have different frame rates, especially when the output should be NTSC/PAL television and Internet.