multi-clip deinterlacing in Premiere Elements 2.0?

[jont 0]

hi all

hope the collective wisdom of this forum can help me.

I have started filming occasional tandems. I am shooting in a sony pc120, and editing in Premiere Elements 2.0 on a pc (and don't start giving me Mac grief - can't afford another laptop!). One thing i usually do is snatch a dozen or so stills from key moments in the video, save them as jpgs, and use them as a little slideshow at the end of the film.

It became clear really quickly that I would need to de-interlace these, or the results were either blurry or flickery.

What has become a pain is that I seem to need to right click on each frame I have grabbed and set it's Field status to de-interlace. There doesn't seem to be a way to do the whole batch at once. If you select multiple clips, the Field menu becomes greyed out.

I have tried setting each clip from my footage to deinterlace before I take the still frame, but that doesn't seem to work - I still need to deinterlace the individual frame grabs too. I have also tried setting "Deinterlace Video Footage" in the "Keyframe and Rendering export" menu, but still no joy.

Can anyone tell me a quick and easy way to extract stills from my footage, and replace them at the end of the timeline with watchable results, without needing to deinterlace each one individually?

Many thanks

Jon T

[dragon2 2]

Don't know if Elements has this, but take a look at the settings for your project, see if there's a de-interlace-all option.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[DSE 5]

Premiere Elements doesn't do this so well, neither does Premiere Pro 2.0.
there are options.
1. Download the DebugMode.com frameserver for Premiere, frameserve to Vdub and extract stills from that.
2. Write an action for Photoshop, it'll do the same thing.
3. Download Mike Crash's smart deinterlacer. I don't have the web addy, but you can google him. He's in CZ.
4. Try Sony Vegas Movie Studio, it does an excellent job of outputting stills. Vegas full version can export a sequence of stills very easily.
5. In Elements, select Quicktime for your output, and choose the sequential TGA option. That'll import to most graphics apps.

[jont 0]

Hey DSE, I can't tell you how great it is to have your input into this forum.

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there are options.
1. Download the DebugMode.com frameserver for Premiere, frameserve to Vdub and extract stills from that.
2. Write an action for Photoshop, it'll do the same thing.
3. Download Mike Crash's smart deinterlacer. I don't have the web addy, but you can google him. He's in CZ.
4. Try Sony Vegas Movie Studio, it does an excellent job of outputting stills. Vegas full version can export a sequence of stills very easily.
5. In Elements, select Quicktime for your output, and choose the sequential TGA option. That'll import to most graphics apps.

I hoping to start using Vegas (option 4) eventually, but I've only just got it and i'm finding the interface not a little bit confusing. I need some time to play with it before I really get how it works.

Option 1 seemed to techy for my level. I googled mike crash to check out Option 3, but it looked to be a plug-in only for vegas.

For now I have gone for option 2, and created a Droplet to deinterlace in photoshop CS. All I have to do is drag any folder to the new shortcut it created on my desktop, and it automagically deinterlaces any jpegs it finds in the folder. brilliant! Now i need to find out if my 1Gig of ram can cope with opening photoshop while in full premiere flight.

Am I correct in thinking that i can do this either before or after placing the stills on the timeline, because all i have created on the timeline is a referernce, so as long as i process the images before i render, then premiere will use the deinterlaced jpgs?

thanks

jon t

[DSE 5]

You can indeed deinterlace before or after.
Bear in mind that if you deinterlace before, and you deliver an interlaced project on a DVD, then your deinterlaced stills will be reinterlaced.

As far as Vegas, ask away. I'm one of a couple certified Vegas instructors in the world, and am one of many certified Premiere instructors.

Don't let the Vegas interface throw you. I'm happy to help, either here in the forum, in other forums I moderate, or via PM.
FWIW, I have several training DVDs out on Vegas as well.
I HIGHLY recommend Vegas Movie Studio over Vegas 4, BTW.

[jont 0]

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Don't let the Vegas interface throw you. I'm happy to help, either here in the forum, in other forums I moderate, or via PM.
FWIW, I have several training DVDs out on Vegas as well.
I HIGHLY recommend Vegas Movie Studio over Vegas 4, BTW.

I believe it's Vegas 5 I have. have only given it a preliminary play with so far - got confused and shut it down! I might well take up your offer of help once i get into it.

thanks again for advice

jon t