c.g._eads
04-21-2006, 06:56 PM
i'm having very strange image problems with the footage I shot. I shot two tapes of footage on the DVX 100b on white tape (I forgot what this tape is called - but it's supposed to be the best). I'm editing in premiere pro 1.0.
All of the footage looks fine in normal speed. It's when I start slowing it down that the problems start. At first, everything on the second tape would be jumpy when I slowed it down. The more I slowed it, the jumpier it got. This would happen both on the computer, and when I exported it to DVD. But it was REALLY pronounced on DVD.
I finally removed the checkbox on 'frame blend speed changes' in the field options and this problem went away. The footage wasn't as smooth, but at least it wasn't jumping anymore. However, when I exported this new fixed version to DVD, I had a new problem. Horizontal blurry lines would appear whenever there was movement. I think the term may be called "artifacting", but it wasn't like satellite TV artificating where the squares just get bigger. It only seemed to happen horizontally. ???
Complicating this matter is the fact that the first tape is fine and doesn't have the same problems!
Someone mentioned that when you bring deinterlaced 24p footage into Premiere, it looks at the first frame, and interlaces accordingly (i may have mixed these two terms up). So if it starts in on the wrong frame, your footage could end up all weirded out. This made the most sense to me since one of the tapes I brought in was fine while the other was causing all the problems. But I redigitized the "bad" footage and re-imported it a few times. The same problems persists. I considered that I may just have a bad tape or bad footage, but I don't understand why it looks fine in normal speed. if this is the case, how do you get premiere to interpret the footage correctly? do you just keep importing it and hope to get lucky? or can you tell it to do something so it interprets it directly?
I have a feeling the answer lies within a combination of variables in the "field options" settings, but I'm not sure. Also, I don't have an external monitor for my editing setup, so every test I do I have to burn a DVD. Hence, I'd like a solid approach before I keep trying little thing after little thing.
I'd really like to start sending this piece out, so I NEED YOUR HELP!
Thanks a bunch!
Chris
All of the footage looks fine in normal speed. It's when I start slowing it down that the problems start. At first, everything on the second tape would be jumpy when I slowed it down. The more I slowed it, the jumpier it got. This would happen both on the computer, and when I exported it to DVD. But it was REALLY pronounced on DVD.
I finally removed the checkbox on 'frame blend speed changes' in the field options and this problem went away. The footage wasn't as smooth, but at least it wasn't jumping anymore. However, when I exported this new fixed version to DVD, I had a new problem. Horizontal blurry lines would appear whenever there was movement. I think the term may be called "artifacting", but it wasn't like satellite TV artificating where the squares just get bigger. It only seemed to happen horizontally. ???
Complicating this matter is the fact that the first tape is fine and doesn't have the same problems!
Someone mentioned that when you bring deinterlaced 24p footage into Premiere, it looks at the first frame, and interlaces accordingly (i may have mixed these two terms up). So if it starts in on the wrong frame, your footage could end up all weirded out. This made the most sense to me since one of the tapes I brought in was fine while the other was causing all the problems. But I redigitized the "bad" footage and re-imported it a few times. The same problems persists. I considered that I may just have a bad tape or bad footage, but I don't understand why it looks fine in normal speed. if this is the case, how do you get premiere to interpret the footage correctly? do you just keep importing it and hope to get lucky? or can you tell it to do something so it interprets it directly?
I have a feeling the answer lies within a combination of variables in the "field options" settings, but I'm not sure. Also, I don't have an external monitor for my editing setup, so every test I do I have to burn a DVD. Hence, I'd like a solid approach before I keep trying little thing after little thing.
I'd really like to start sending this piece out, so I NEED YOUR HELP!
Thanks a bunch!
Chris