Problem mixing analog and DV sources in Premiere 6.5

[argiris]

Hi there,
Recently I had a problem when I tried to use footage from one analog capture and one digital (DV) capture in the same project. I set the project settings in Premiere to the DV settings and field order, because most of the footage used was from the DV setup. I added some fill-in scenes from the second camera (analog), that were overlaid on the video track. Of cource, I changed the field ordering of the analog video clips on the timeline to match the DV field ordering.

The problem is that when I frameserve to TMPG, the analog frames are served like Premiere is trying to weave-deinterlace the analog clip before exporting - but doing it on the opposite direction. The analog frames jump up and down by a few lines creating a "jittery" image on the TV. I tried fiddling with field dominance in Premiere and could not get it right. The DV portion of the video is perfect. Also, when I open the analog clips directly from TMPG, they are converted OK. I have also verified (using the guides posted here) that my analog capture is upper field first and I have no missing frames. The monitor view from within Premiere shows video OK. I am very puzzled, because I do analog OR digital all the time without any problems. This is the first time that I combine analog and DV clips on the same project.

Any ideas?

[racer-x]

Yes I would say it's a field order problem. Here's a few things I'd do:

Make sure your project settings are lower field first. See if you can capture the analog source with lower field first. If you can't, then right/click on the analog clips on video 2 and change the field dominance to lower field first.

[argiris]

I did check for project settings and I tried to reverse the analog field dominance, but then the exported video plays with jittery motion on the TV (even worse than having the "jumpy" picture!!). It seems none of the available filed order combinations work. ...

As a last resort, I tried to deinterlace the analog frames by dropping fields, and this stops the jitter, although that the quality of the clip is much worse....

Any more thoughts?

[racer-x]

The only thing I can think of, is to capture your analog video into you DV-Cam through your RCA jacks. This will insure that it will have the same settings as your DV footage.

[BJ_M]

crop one line at the top of the upper field content and leave lower aloneand render lower ..

thats all you have to do ...