Using Still Images In Adobe Premiere Pro

[foochuck]

I use a lot of still images when editing in Adobe Premiere Pro and a lot of times when I'm zooming in on those images or I'm shifting them around, there's a lot of flittering and such caused by small lines in the images. Is there any way to get rid of this without blurring my images in Photoshop?

[pijetro]

Where do you see this??
On your computer monitor, or on a television monitor??

What's the final destination, DVD, Web, CD, etc...

[Cornucopia]

How large are your images?

I ask that because if you have a large photo and are making Premiere do the resizing, it won't look as good as if you had Photoshop do it ahead of time and stuck it in Full-frame in Premiere.

Also, you OFTEN have to apply a blur. I prefer "MotionBlur" in Vertical direction only, with 1-4 pixel blend (depending on amount needed and resolution willing to give up).

Between doing those 2 things, you should get better-looking stuff...

HTH,
Scott

[foochuck]

My images are around 1200 x 800 pixels (1.2 Widescreen - Non-Square Pixels) made in Photoshop as PSDs.

I'm seeing this on my Television and Computer Screen As Well.

Thanks for the info Scott.

[pijetro]

there's a lot of flittering and such caused by small lines in the images.

Alot depends on your "Export Settings"..
If it's strictly stills you're working with, i'd suggest using Progressive frame export, rather than interlaced..

If choosing interlaced export settings, then make sure it's bottom field first...
Sometimes a thin line (less than two pixels) will cause flutter...
To avoid this, right click on the clip, and choose "remove flicker"..

Truly, if you ever want to get serious with Premiere, than i'd suggest investing in an external colour video monitor, and use an ADS Pyro A/V link (or other export device) to watch the results in realtime..

Good luck!!!

[foochuck]

I'm exporting my project to a Widescreen MPEG2-DVD format. The stills are all moving images - would you still recommend using progressive frame export?

[foochuck]

PS - When I right click on my clips in the timeline I don't have a "Remove Flicker" option. I'm using Premiere Pro 1.5.1

[pijetro]

Sorry, i don't have it open..
I believe it's Right Click>Field option>Remove flicker....

You might also be creating problems, in where the stills are square pixels, and you're forcing it to squish out to Anamorphic wide screen pixels..
Not an issue though (especially if it's looking fine already)...