Canopus ADVC - VHS to DVD

[garylanders]

Hi!

I have had some problems with my captured material since the end of last year.

Im capturing with my ADVC-55. This is material recorded on a regular VHS (PAL)-tape and recorded on some huge camcorder from the mid-eighties.


I captured the material using Premiere and the settings was lower fields first PAL video.


When I send this to Encore, burn a dvd and watch it on my tv the picture is all jittery (wrong field order).


Then only way around this so far has been to export from Premiere pro to "media" (uncompressed avi) where I choose "Upper fields first".


Isnt there any other way around this and could someone explain why this has to be so darn complicated?


Im going to capture alot of other VHS and VHS-C-tapes (PAL) and I would like to know how to set up Premiere and so forth.


//Anders

[DB83]

I know nowt about Premiere but I suggest that the fault lies there.
What are you 'capturing' to DV or Mpeg2 ?
DV should 'capture' as lower field first but Mpeg2 should be Upper Field First.
I would suggest that you use WinDV to 'capture' and import that into Premiere. That source will be lff and make your compliant Mpeg2 from there.

[edDV]

Premiere has three places where field order needs to be set correctly.

If you captured with an ADVC-55 then the field order by definition is lower field first.

1. Project must be set to PAL DV, lower field first.

2. Captured clip properties must show lower field first.

3. MPeg2 "PAL DVD" Encoder settings should show lower field first.

If you play this file before import to Encore, it should play motion correctly.

Ideally you would encode in Premiere, not Encore. Just import the MPeg2 asset into Encore without recode.

[garylanders]

Ok so despite the source beeing vhs-material I should choose PAL-DV in premiere and keep it to lower fields first through the process?

Funny but I did export the material from Premiere to Encore (lower fields first) and burned it to a dvd and it looked terrible on the tv!
When I exported the material as upper fields first it looked good.

//GL

[edDV]

Ok so despite the source beeing vhs-material I should choose PAL-DV in premiere and keep it to lower fields first through the process?

Funny but I did export the material from Premiere to Encore (lower fields first) and burned it to a dvd and it looked terrible on the tv!
When I exported the material as upper fields first it looked good.

//GL

The ADVC converts analog to Lower Field First DV so project and encoding should follow DV LFF.

What you are probably doing is flipping field order twice which is lossy.