Adobe Premiere and Field Order Question?

[section31]

Hi, I just imported a dv video from my dv camcorder into premiere edited it, exported it and then I deleted the project and source. I think i screwed up man...What field order am i suppost to export this? ...assuming i just export as dv not loosing any quality..Cause i just realized I did upper field first and I think it was suppose to be lower...cause when i author this to dvd, the video looks fairly good but like the titles for the credits don't look razor sharp....look like the field order is screwed up...

here is a screenshot of the setting i screwed up on.
http://imgo.us/temp/premiere.png
on that setting i set it to upperfield first...i'm a moron aren't I...

So if I did in fact screw up...is there any way to fix the problem...what would happen if i were to import that video back to premiere and export it again as dv with it set to lower field first...?????

[daamon]

Hi section31,

I presume you imported to AVI? In that case, it'll be DV AVI which is, as you suspect, lower field first.

...assuming i just export as dv not loosing any quality...

Based on this, I'm presuming you exported to DV AVI. What tool do you use to encode the DV AVI to MPEG2 before authoring? I ask because I use TMPGEnc and, I believe, it usually (always?) detects what the field order is. That said, you can change the field order so that the encode will work with the upper field first.

You can then just go and author the MPEG2 as before. I'm basing this on logic, and not experience, so it's not a definitive answer, more of a possible one.

So if I did in fact screw up...is there any way to fix the problem...what would happen if i were to import that video back to premiere and export it again as dv with it set to lower field first...?????

Interesting solution, can't see why it wouldn't work. I'd say give it a go on the section where you're seeing problems and try it out (assuming you've got a DVD rewriteable).

Hope that helps. Good luck...