[Vincent Rosati]

In Premiere, look in Project/Project Settings/General/Video/Fields. It will be set to either Progressive or Interlaced.
If your final product will be played on a DVD player, your project can be either Progressive or Interlaced, as DVD hardware will interlace a progressive program for correct display on a CRT.

The Field Order setting is chosen when the project is created, and cannot be changed after that point. The reason is that, your project settings are specific to your final display goal.
The only way to change the field order would be to create a new project with new settings, than import the old project into the new one.

Which is better? That is very subjective, and would lead to a lenghty discussion that would confuse your immediate goals. 🙂
If the project settings are Interlaced, you would want to make sure that your source files and encoding settings are also interlaced.

Which is the best, for your project settings… That depends.
You used the term ‘footage’, so I assume your source material was shot on a camera.
If the source material was created in After Effects, it is likely Progressive.
Also, AE deinterlaces by default. So, even if you had interlaced source material, you may have unintentionally deinterlaced it.

As far as your text, there are special considerations to make when creating type for video, as opposed for print.
Any type that has horizontal components that are 2 pixels or less will probably flicker on a CRT. Generally, type for video should be a bit bigger and/or bolder for video.
Also, you should honor the Text Safe Guides. In PP & AE there is a button at the bottom of the monitor that will enable these guides.

If you are creating text in Premiere, apply Video Effect/Gaussian Blur to the text and set it to ‘0’.

There are a few open-ended points in my response. We would need to know what type source material you are working with – DV, HD, Progressive, Interlaced, for instance. And, what region you are in NTSC or PAL.

Maybe download GSpot, It will tell you much information about your source material…
https://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Video isn’t easy. At any step in the process, there a bunch of things that you can either do worse or better. It takes time.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

If you could post the file, or send it to rosati.v (at) gmail, I could take a look at it.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Some things to consider are, is your project progressive or interlaced. Your source, project settings, and export should match.

Don’t resize, rotate, or apply motion to interlaced video.

I often deinterlace and ‘filmify’ my interlaced video to improve the look. These subjects can be searched in the archive…
https://forums.creativecow.net/forums_search.php

If you are encoding for DVD, you could try 2-pass, VBR 8000/6000/3825. There should be a ‘Quality’ slider, set it to the maximum, I think it’s ‘5’.

A number if things can cause flicker. It could be that your color is outside of the Broadcast Color spectrum. In Premiere, you could nest your final sequence than add Effect/Video/Broadcast Color.
Or you could do it in AE…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/broadcast_safe.php
Flicker could also be caused by inverting your field order, if you’re using interlaced video.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’m not sure, I haven’t used Elements. In Premiere, you could nest the sequences in a sort of master sequence – Create a new sequence/timeline and call it ‘Master’. Than, drop the other sequences into it.
If you were making a DVD or something, you could encode each sequence, than have them run contiguously.

Just a few thoughts

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Premiere Pro is Pro. There’s nothing about it that isn’t pro. Some might argue that it’s supplied encoding system is not pro, and that might be true, but that’s not editing, that’s encoding, two different things.
You simply get the MainConcept MPEG Pro plugin, and than you have full-control ‘pro’ encoding.
You combine all of the other app’s that Adobe offers, especially After Effects, and you’ll be in great shape. Although, you may also want to add a 3D modeling app, for that sort of creation.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

Here’s the subject image file…

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

PC Alt = Mac Option
PC Ctrl = Mac Apple (Command) …usually

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this sort of thing before. I can’t say for sure what he issue is in your file.
Are you getting any warnings in the Print Summary?
Maybe try adjusting the Print/Advanced/Overprint setting?
I see a lot of designers use rasterized shadows, to avoid this.

Just a few thoughts.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

I’m not sure. Is the mic mono or stereo? Either way, the sound should be even. If it’s a mini-plug sometimes just spinning the plug inside the jack can improve a bad connection.
Depending on your sound card, you may have an advanced interface. If so, check it to see if the sound card is registering the signal properly. If the card isn’t showing a proper signal, that could be where the issue is.
Usually this sort of thing is a hardware issue.

Vince

[Vincent Rosati]

np. I think I can do a workaround 😉

Vince