[Toni martin Dobrzanski]

Ok, thanks! It just came to my mind, that we started exporting from Premiere in progressive some time ago. We experienced lots of problems with the final output files when Premiere converted to DV Pal interlaced – lots of digital faults in places where we edited the video with effects. We couldn’t find a solution for this other than going progressive field order, since this eliminated the problem.

I do have a monitor by my side but I’m testing a new computer, which does not have a firewire card – hence no connection to our DV deck. But I’ll try getting a firewire card inserted today maybe.

Yes, I do everything in Premiere. Just one small thing is done in AE, but that’s in another movie on the DVD.

Next step: I’ll try getting my monitor up and running and I’ll have to get Premiere to output it in interlaced – probably uncompressed AVI.

[Toni martin Dobrzanski]

I’ve made a small video-clip for preview (75 MB):

https://www.soundcomposer.dk/TEST/TEST_2.avi

at first the triangle that fades in is the PNG file. In 0:12 the triangle changes to the PSD file – the edges become quite clearer. But still it’s the top side of the triangle, which is jagged compared to the other two sides.

Why is this happening? Has it something to do with aliasing?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge 🙁

[Toni martin Dobrzanski]

Hi everybody…

I’ve tried some of the things you mentioned and I still have some problems.

Illustrator:
One of my graphics were created in illustrator. I imported it into Premiere as an AI-file and everything just showed as it’s supposed to. So that was easy. No jagged/pixelated edges.

Photoshop:
I have another graphic though, which I still can’t grasp why it’s showing jagged edges. It’s a small triangle (it’s the dvd-series logo) which I had put into the video as a PNG and downsized the PNG in Premiere – this was probably why I didn’t work to begin with. After your advices I tried making a 720 X 576 Widescreen (1,4587 -PAL) project in Photoshop and making the triangle the exact same size as it should appear in the video (so no need for resizing later) and having a transparent background. I used the PSD file in Premiere and exported the sequence as DV PAL and burned a DVD. This helped some on the jagged edges, but still not enough. Two of the sides of the triangle were almost smooth but one side still remains quite jagged. What could be wrong? And why is it only one of the sides that remain jagged?
If I export a still-frame out of the sequence in Premiere though, the jagged edges disappear and the graphic is really smooth in the tiff-file… (???).

Anyone?

Thanks,
Toni

[Toni martin Dobrzanski]

Thanks for all the info!! I really appreciate it!

Right now we have a tight deadline for another production… so I have to finish that first. Fortunately I have enough time to fix this issue on the new project – for the first time ever not being under pressure 🙂

So I’ll go through all your advices on monday next week!

Hopefully it will work! And if it works I’ll just have to edit about 70 graphics – which then also are animated in Premiere…. that’ll be fun 😉

Cheers!!
Toni