interlaced woes...

[greymalkin]

OK My brain is falling out of my head as of late.

I just wanted to put the feelers out and see if theres something stupid I'm overlooking. I have a video that is 704x480 interlaced. It was recorded from a camera that records straight to dvd-ram (panasonic i believe).

I imported this video into premiere and did some editing, then had to re-encode it. When I watch it on the tv it appears just as "flawed" as when I watch interlaced on a computer monitor. Whenever I stay focused on something it's sharp and clear, but any hint of motion and the edges "split up"..making it very blurry looking during any motion. The only difference between watching it on tv and watching it on the computer is that on the computer I can see the defined interlaced lines whereas on the tv the resolution is too low so it just looks like blurring.

I encoded it as interlaced using the mainconcept encoder and tried using both top first AND bottom first field order, but still no love.

any ideas?

Also, is there a program that will tell me the truth about my video clips? I can load a video into 3 different programs and one will tell me it's interlaced, top field first....another one will tell me bottom first..and another will say it's progressive!

[Abond]

If your source is mpeg2 load it in ReStream or maybe GSpot.

[lordsmurf]

Sounds like the PREMIERE import codec could be to blame. Which one are you using?

[greymalkin]

well for this particular bit I exported to movie which just dumps an .avi file. Then I used the encoder that comes with vegas5 (also mainConcept) and tried both top and bottom field order with the same results...I usually don't have this issue at all if I simply burn the files from the camera straight to dvd (after a wrapper conversion)..but I had to lighten up the video and do a few other edits so a re-encode was necessary.

[greymalkin]

i am pleeezed to announce this issue has been resolved by encoding with a different encoder. :P

[Abond]

Which one?

[Sillyname]

Even though you've solved your problem. I'm thinking you had your fields reversed. That's the only reason why you would've noticed interlacing on your TV, if your TV is not progressive.

[greymalkin]

that was my thinking at first that I had the fields reversed, but I encoded both ways and it still looked the same. I eventually just used the TMPGENC express and encoded to mpeg and it looked grrrrrreat.