Premiere Elements - deinterlacer?

SrgtWilco · Post by **SrgtWilco** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:02 pm

Okay, so I've followed the Zarxax video guides to the letter, gotten my clips into a nice, Avisynth-deinterlaced, properly cropped and resized, Lagarith-compressed format. Looking at the clips in VirtualDubMod the footage is beautiful, but in premiere it, well, isn't. Basically, if everything was hunky-dory frame A would switch to frame B cleanly. Instead, when frame B should be all that's on the screen, frame A is still half-faded into it. What I've heard is that Premiere does some half-assed job of deinterlacing all on its own when you import your footage, so is there something I need to turn off or reset, or what? As always, help appreciated.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:32 am

Probably something with your project settings. http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... setup.html

SrgtWilco · Post by **SrgtWilco** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:31 am

Willen wrote:Probably something with your project settings. http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... setup.html

Thanks, but I guess it's like having an outdated road map - I use a similar version of premiere, but it isn't exactly the same. Here's the main open menu:

I can get a similar screen to the one on the guide by going into "setup," and the next menu is pretty much the same in function -

- but the next step, however, is a little different:

As you can see, most of the options are locked out, god knows why, and so I'm now stuck. Something else I've noticed is that clips that haven't been deinterlaced in VirtualDubMod seem to play without the problem I mentioned, but of course you're supposed to take care of all the deinterlacing and other problems in your source footage (and I'm inclined to agree). I guess if anyone has experience with this particular editing program, or god forbid, if there's another program that I should get, please let me know.

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:02 pm

You are gonna have to edit interlaced and deinterlace at the end if you use Elements. Or you could (gasp) leave it interlaced. As long as your interlacing is consistent, no one will be able to see it. If you aren't doing one-frame white flashes it'll probably look fine.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:02 am

Can't you create a custom preset?

SrgtWilco · Post by **SrgtWilco** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:18 pm

Willen wrote:Can't you create a custom preset?

Doesn't look like it...not the way they had it on the guides, anyhow. I guess if you know anybody with experience in Elements, let me know.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:26 pm

As BMA suggests, edit interlaced. Then deinterlace in post-processing (or not

).