How to see individual fields of an interlaced video?

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I made an interlaced project in Premiere, but I'm not sure the fields are in the right order. When I grab frames of the video and look at them in Photoshop, the two fields seem to be in the wrong order.

But I'd like to check for sure that the interlacing has worked properly? My media player of choice is Daum PotPlayer, which can only advance 1 frame at a time, rather than 1 field at a time. So all I can see is two fields at once, and have no way to verify that they will appear in the correct order.

Is there any software I can use to inspect a movie field-by-field rather than frame-by-frame? So I know that the fields are in the right order?

[johns0]

Load the video in avidemux and do a frame by frame scan and it should show you.

[hello_hello]

Is there any software I can use to inspect a movie field-by-field rather than frame-by-frame? So I know that the fields are in the right order?

Avisynth.

Have you used MeGUI at all? You can use the File/Open menu to open a video, MeGUI will offer to index it. Run the indexing job and the script creator will open with a preview. Switch to the Script tab. Type the following below what's already there and refresh the preview. You can freely navigate backwards and forwards.

SeparateFields()

That'll probably halve the video height. If you want to go back to full height, try this (substitute the original video width for "A" and the original video height for "B". The info line was added to provide basic information.

SeparateFields()
Spline36Resize(A, B)
Info()

Avisynth assumes bottom field first if the field order can't be determined, but to tell it bottom field first:

AssumeBFF()
SeparateFields()

Or tell it top field first if need be.

AssumeTFF()
SeparateFields()