DVD to Adobe Premiere Frame Flicker Problem

[bighurt]

Hey, so I'm a huge Scrubs fan, and I'm also a huge fan of beer, so I'm making a Scrubs Video Power (60 scenes play 1 minute long each and at each scene you take a shot of beer). I'm using DVD Decrypter to get the original MPEG-2 video and the AC-3 (which I'm converting to WAV) and importing both into Adobe Premiere 1.5 (I'm using 1.5 because it's the latest and greatest version that runson Win XP SP1 and I refuse to upgrad past SP1). Once I bring in the 22 min episode clip, I figure out the 60 seconds I want to crop and export to DV AVI (so I don't lose any quality - and it's easier to all bring together later on). The problem is that after the export I get some weird out of order Frame show up every once in a while and I can't figure out why. I'm using the default DVD settings for my Premiere Timeline and for the export: framerate 29.97 and I've tried Upper Field First, Lower Field First, No Fields, De-Interlaced, Reverse Field Dominance, Flicker Removal, Progressive, etc. I've basically tried everything possible but Adobe Premiere is kicking my ass and I can't figure out why. I also tried this on Premiere version 6.5 and same problem. The video files are 100% perfect going into Premiere, the problem is only on the export. Anyone seen this? Anyone have any ideas????

[Baldrick]

I would cut out and join the clips using a mpeg2 editor like mpeg video wizard instead.

[filmboss80]

Yes, the issue is most likely a field order mismatch, and though you may have taken steps to invert field dominance, your final export may also have the wrong field order. I have no info on your source video (GSpot can provide the info about frame rate, interlacing properties, and field order) and don't know what your settings are in term of encoding the original MPEG2 files to DV-AVI, and then back to MPEG-2 after editing. There might also be a telecine issue, in which the DVD video is 24fps instead of 30fps.

With that said, there is really no need to molest and reencode the original source clips just so you can edit in Premiere. Baldrick suggested mpeg video wizard. That, or some other MPEG2 editor would be a better choice, methinks.

If you must use Premiere, you ought to first do your VOB to DV-AVI conversions with a tool like VirtualDub-MPEG2, applying Scott Elliott's Field Reorder filter, if required. (Use GSpot first to identify the source field order and frame rate). VirtualDub will also do inverse telecine, if needed.