Adobe Premiere problem

[IDMantis]

Im using Adobe Premiere 6.0
pc specs are:
AMD Duron 800mhz OC'd to 990Mhz
512mb SDRAM
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP

And I downloaded a DV movie from my video camera and i watch it in windows media player or whatever and its fine. But when i load it into premiere to do some editing the lines screw up, pretty much the video looks like this
http://www.geocities.com/mantisthe1337/example.jpg (copy and paste URL into browser for image to appear)

So i just wanted to know if this was a hardware related problem like if i needed a new video card of if its time fora new processor.. Please help thanks.

[Sycho]

that used to happen on all the computers used for editing at my school the end product would be fine though

[IDMantis]

see i thought that too, but the end product does still have that problem.. But my computer at the office is just a stock dell with a P4 3 ghz, thats it and it works fine no line or anything.. plus something i forgot to mention was that it happens the most when theres any sort of movement, like instead of blurring it does that..

[ammck55]

IDMantis - Does the problem present itself when previewing your DV footage straight from the cam in the Source window?

ammck55

Edit: The link to example.jpg is down as of this edit, and was at the time of my post.

[Dimmer]

Originally posted by IDMantis
see i thought that too, but the end product does still have that problem.. But my computer at the office is just a stock dell with a P4 3 ghz, thats it and it works fine no line or anything.. plus something i forgot to mention was that it happens the most when theres any sort of movement, like instead of blurring it does that.. Based on the fact that it happens during the motion scenes, my guess would be that it's time to upgrade your Duron system, first CPU then video card if you wish. Motion scenes require more processing power than stills, and perhaps Premiere even purposely degrades the quality just to keep working rather than freeze.

To confirm this, try processing source video with lower resolution, which supposedly should produce better results in these situation since smaller picture requires less system resources.

[IDMantis]

to answer sycho i only use the avi's that i have already ripped from my dv camera..

[ntojzan]

Try to resize the "monitor" window to get EXACTLY 288 vertical resolution. The problem SHOULD dissappear. btw: The link to your image doesn't work anymore.

[smok3]

try to figure out what interlaced video is, from there you will find a proper solutions (hint: field order).

[mustardman]

And also make sure you are working the correct format, ie: NTSC or PAL.