DVR-MS Converted To AVI Now Flickers

[sahill01]

I took a bunch of video in DVR-MS format I had from various basketball games on television and converted them to AVI. I then inserted the AVI clips into Premiere 6.5 and slowed them down to 30% of their original speed. After I finished the edited video in Premiere I converted to .m2v and burned onto a DVD and now the portions where I slowed the video down flickers.

Does this have something to do with field order or what? This is driving me crazy. The recorded TV shots that are not slowed down (i.e. played in normal speed) do not do this.

Any help?

[Safesurfer]

I don't think it''s the field order, rather the fields per sec has been changed due to the slowdown. Try deinterlacing just the portion that you slowed down and reencode.

Edit

Don't know what field order DVR-MS uses, but make sure when you encode that you to M2V in Premiere that you use the same field order. Regardless, you will still need to deinterlace the slowed down part.

[sahill01]

Thanks safesurfer...

I found another option also from the forum archives. If you right click on the clips (the ones that are flickering) and go to field options and then select "flicker removal" this will take care of it.

Amazing...It was there the whole time. You learn something new everyday.

For all the experts out there, any idea what causes the flicker and how adobe fixes it with it's flicker removal option? I'm curious.

[Safesurfer]

Thanks safesurfer...

I found another option also from the forum archives. If you right click on the clips (the ones that are flickering) and go to field options and then select "flicker removal" this will take care of it.

Amazing...It was there the whole time. You learn something new everyday.

For all the experts out there, any idea what causes the flicker and how adobe fixes it with it's flicker removal option? I'm curious.

Flicker removal is just Adobe's term for deinterlacing - same thing. I dislike this term as often if you are building files to display on TV, you do not want to deinterlace the source material.