Taky, you're the man! Turning on de-interlacing is what makes the difference. Suddenly I get good HDV to DV AVI down-conversion.
It's the one control I didn't mess with because I felt that since it was destined for an interlaced medium, NTSC video, it shouldn't make a difference. But it does. I tried burning a DVD with interlaced and non-interlaced down-conversion, and the interlaced conversion looks lousy even playing it back on an interlaced monitor. I wish I'd known this before I accepted the Premiere CS2 default DVD burn settings a few months ago when I burned competition DVDs straight from Premiere. It's amazing the difference just one small setting makes. Mike Boom At 01:16 PM 12/8/2007, you wrote: >I exported HDV project to DV with Premiere. The output is surprising >better than using the DV-Lock feature in the HV20 cam (which is >downsize on the fly during capture). I did notice I need to >deinterlace during export to DV AVI. > >I did a comparison here > >http://www.hv20.com/showthread.php?t=1246 > > > > > >From: Mike Boom >Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 1:13 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [AP] HDV to DV AVI down-conversion problems > > >I've been editing a lot of Sony HDV stuff lately (1080i, 30fps) and >have just tried exporting an HDV sequence from Premiere Pro CS3 to >Encore CS3 so I can burn a standard DV version of the videos on a >standard DVD. I've been getting really lousy results from Premiere >when it down-converts HDV into a DV AVI file for import into Encore: >everything looks soft and out of focus. > >Just for comparison, I tried recording the HDV production from >Premiere to my original camcorder, a Sony HVR-A1U, and then >re-captured the footage in Premiere while the A1U played back and >down-converted in camera to DV. The results were spectacularly >better! You can take a look at comparison frame grabs here: > >http://tinyurl.com/2fqgyp > >It turns out that a Sony HDV camcorder, down-converting from HDV to >DV on the fly, does a far superior job to Premiere, which has all the >time in the world to down-convert from HDV to DV into an AVI file. >I've tried every different export setting in Premiere that I can >think of: MS AVI, MS DV AVI, MS uncompressed AVI, recompression on, >recompression off, and much more but it all ends up looking like >out-of-focus garbage. The same is true if I let Premiere do >compression into standard-def mpeg2 files. > >Has anyone on the list figured out a way to whip Premiere into shape >when exporting HDV to DV AVI? Right now it's unusable. I don't want >to have to export to tape, then recapture and export to AVI to burn a >decent DVD. Premiere should be able to export straight to usable DV >AVI for import into Encore. > >Thanks for any pointers or ideas, > >Mike Boom > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
