Need a fast Answer

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:04 pm

Ok, I'm finishing up my video for AX and it has to get done tonight (nevermind why). Anyway, in order to make one of the shots last long enough I have to lower its speed to 35%, there's no way around that. However, at that speed the video now is somewhat gittery and a tad pixelated. I can fix this if I deselect the option for this clip of "deinterlace if under 100%" Unselecting that checkbox allows the video to play as normal when I render. (I'm leaving that box checked for every single clip otherwise left in, hence all interlacing options are still set to default save for this one shot)

Considering the problems AX had last year. Is it safe for me to unselect this check box and still encode under a HuffyUV codec AVI at 720x480?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:25 pm

YES!

You NEVER want that checkbox checked EVER if your speed is below %100.

Premiere SUCKS at de-interlacing. Horrible.

Never have it checked if you slow a clip down.

It will not affect your video output.

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:28 pm

Errm.

Ok. Well

Here's something more detailed.

If you need to de-interlace your video, you should de-interlace the *WHOLE* video, not just a single clip. That is why that feature is so useless.

Also Premiere's de-interlacing is just plain horrible. You would be better off using something else if you had to de-interlace your video.

Just leave it unchecked and it should be fine. Then post-process your video properly if need be.

~klinky

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:44 pm

Ok cool, thanks Klinky, if you don't mind me asking, where is the option to uncheck that for the entire video. I gathered that was the problem after checking a few things. So if you could tell me how to remove that option for the entire video I'd be greatfull. Otherwise I'm just going to wind up sitting here removing it all night @_@

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:54 pm

There IS no option to globally unselect it, that I've ever been able to find.

Just another thing about Premiere that sucks.

You only need to uncheck it in slowed down clips, but that can take a freakin' long time if you used a lot of them.

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:35 pm

Here's a hack to do it:
http://www.doki.ca/misc/nodeint.zip

From the source file:

/* Turn on bit 9 (512) of every specflags line in a Premiere Project (ppj)
** file. Only tested with Premiere 5.1 files. Known problems: Turns on
** bit 9 in the audio track elements as well!
** (Bit 9 - Don't deinterlace when speed is below 100%)
** There is NO GUARANTEE this will do what you may expect. Keep backups.
** Example: nodeint <source.ppj >destination.ppj
*/

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:18 am

Doki... if this works in later versions of Premiere, you kick ass

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 2:43 pm

Cool, thanks Tim, I had to do it manually last night but this should help me from now on. thanks a lot.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 3:39 pm

um... you can globally deselect that option.

Click Alt+A to select everything on the timeline then go into the main Clip menu in premiere (the one at the top), go to Video Options > Field Options

The option is there. This will change the setting globally. If it's off then selecting it on the off will deselect it for everything.

The problem usually occurs when right-clicking deselects multiple clips but you dont need to right click to access that option.

It will lose all your preview files but I do this at the end of making every video.

burntoast · Post by **burntoast** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 4:38 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:Click Alt+A to select everything on the timeline

I think that for at least Premiere 6.0, it's supposed to be Ctrl-A to select everything.

But this is a great idea.. I haven't tried this method before, in order to get rid of that nasty Deinterlace option.