How to export for Progressive and Interlaced

[Ledhed]

I co-own a media productions business and my current client is sending a video were are doing out to their own clients. I am sure that many of the DVDs will be played on a computer though some will probably be played through a regular DVD player.

My question is if there is any way to create a file that looks good on both a progressive and an interlaced monitor. If not, what would be the best way to export?

I use Premiere Pro 1.5 and Encore DVD for the disc creation

Thanks,
Jack

[Zarxrax]

Well if your source video is progressive, then you can just export it as progressive and set the mpeg-2 flags to do 3:2 pulldown on playback. I don't know how to do that with encore though. It's probably automatic.

[Ledhed]

I'm not really sure what that means... I have been reading the Adobe primers on compression etc. but have a limited knowledge on the innerworkings of the DV and DVD standard. I can export the AVI as progressive. Is that what you mean? Or are you asking if it was filmed in PS? (Which it wasn't, used a Canon SD DV Optura Xi)

[neuron2]

Best way to export Please read and follow forum rules, specifically, rule 9: do not ask what's best. Thank you.

http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm

[Ledhed]

I'm sorry, but I cannot change my thread title (Would "how to export for Progressive and Interlaced" work better?) I was not trying to ask a question that would lead to opinionated answers.

[neuron2]

To change your title, edit the first post in the thread and then hit Go Advanced. Thank you for your understanding and welcome to the forum!

[krisq]

Almost all software players has somekind of deinterlacing method implemnted so I think I would go for interlaced. That is if your source is interlaced of course.

[Mug Funky]

yep. keep it interlaced unless you absolutely have to deinterlace it. and if you do have to, don't let premiere do it - it'll make it look stairstepped and awful. there's plugins for it that might work better, and if you're feeling adventurous you can use avisynth to do it.

to understand how to work with interlaced footage in premiere, you'll have to understand field order. there's a few resources around about this.

basically, if your source is DV it will be bottom-field first (or "lower field", or "field B dominant", or any of the other ways it's referred to that add to the confusion).

if you have ex-DVD footage it could be either top-field or bottom-field (usually top-field, but it depends where the source for the DVD came from). you'll have to keep a TV plugged in and watch everything you do for jitters, judders and aliasing.

so long as you have an understanding of field order, a decent TV out ability and a TV to preview on, you'll be fine.

[Ledhed]

Thanks for the help