resize DV video from 720x480 to 352x480 properly in Premiere

[808state]

No matter what I have tried I get funky lines and jerky scenes. I am starting to wonder if there is a problem with my methods because of the DV codec.

Are there any tricks or special guidelines I need to follow for this, I am getting pretty good with Premiere & Photoshop I would hate to have to dump them for another program that can resize DV video more easily.

Thanks much

[mustardman]

I had the same problem with Premiere. The solution is to inform Premiere that the video is interlaced - which I do not know if you can do.

Basically to do a interlaced resize you have to
1. separate each field
2. resize each field
3. recombine the new fields together into a frame

AVIsynth can do it easily, but it sounds as though you don't want to do that. It will preserve the maximum quality.

An alternate is to do the Horizontal resize only (keep the vertical the same). Then do a vertical Crop to the correct size. This will bugger the aspect ratio, so a Crop all round may suit better.

If you can get Premiere to do it (I was using v5) then let us know!

Edit: I use three apps - Premiere, AVIsynth & VirtualDub, as they can all do things the others can't. Once I got used to using 3 apps, it has improved the quality and timeliness of my editing considerably. Bit of a learning curve though.

[808state]

Thanx for the help, I am going to give AVIsynth a try tomorrow!

[mustardman]

Whoops! Sorry - I should have read your post more carefully, at least the title!

I come from PAL land, so my native vertical resolution is 576, whereas your NTSC is 480. You don't have to do anything special with AVIsynth, since the vertical resolution is not changing - only the horizontal.

I beleive the answer may be to tell Premiere "better quality" under one of the resize settings. I had the same problem resizing from 768 to 720 (horiz). I don't know where this setting is burried, but it is there somewhere (at least in the older versions).

Also, would you be better sticking to 720 as you are using a DV codec? I thought it would internally rescale to 720 before compression anyway (?). Just asking!