Question Re: Transitions at DVinfo.net

Benjamin Heneberry · January 20th, 2006, 03:04 PM

ok, i totally posted this on the wrong board. hopefully, this is the right place to ask this. i'm interested in doing lots of fades, such as you often saw in montage sequences from movies in the 40's, or as coppola did in "tucker: a man and his dream". anyway, i've been told this looks REALLY bad on digital video, for some reason.

is this true? does it only look bad interlaced, but OK on progressive? let's say i want to cross-fade a clip at full speed with a clip at half speed, or an interlaced clip with a progressive scan clip. i'm not talking straight cross-fades, but rather layer three or more moving images on top of each other.

i'm using premiere pro 1.5, but unless i'm doing something wrong, the de-interlace feature looks awful, particularly if the speed of the clip has been altered.

Benjamin Heneberry · January 29th, 2006, 02:21 PM

oh my god, was it that dumb of a question? NO ONE has an answer? (sound of me crying) oh, well...

Quito Washington · January 29th, 2006, 07:26 PM

there is only one dumb question ("is that gun REALLY loaded??" just assume it is..)...
but your question is a very specific one and requires some experience in that area....
my best suggestion would be to keep experimenting till you find the perfect cocktail of effects/transition to get what you want....
de-interlacing causes you to lose quality because the computer is trying to blend the two frames together or duplicating one of the fields (<--very very basic conceptual answer)
does it look bad to you, or to others?
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Emre Safak · January 29th, 2006, 07:31 PM

Why not simply try rendering it and watching it on a DVD?

January 20th, 2006, 03:04 PM	#1
Benjamin Heneberry New Boot Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 13	Question Re: Transitions ok, i totally posted this on the wrong board. hopefully, this is the right place to ask this. i'm interested in doing lots of fades, such as you often saw in montage sequences from movies in the 40's, or as coppola did in "tucker: a man and his dream". anyway, i've been told this looks REALLY bad on digital video, for some reason. is this true? does it only look bad interlaced, but OK on progressive? let's say i want to cross-fade a clip at full speed with a clip at half speed, or an interlaced clip with a progressive scan clip. i'm not talking straight cross-fades, but rather layer three or more moving images on top of each other. i'm using premiere pro 1.5, but unless i'm doing something wrong, the de-interlace feature looks awful, particularly if the speed of the clip has been altered.

January 29th, 2006, 07:26 PM	#3
Quito Washington Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Darwin, Australia Posts: 34	not a dumb question there is only one dumb question ("is that gun REALLY loaded??" just assume it is..)... but your question is a very specific one and requires some experience in that area.... my best suggestion would be to keep experimenting till you find the perfect cocktail of effects/transition to get what you want.... de-interlacing causes you to lose quality because the computer is trying to blend the two frames together or duplicating one of the fields (<--very very basic conceptual answer) does it look bad to you, or to others? Q __________________ http://www.quitofilms.com brash raw and fully independent

January 29th, 2006, 02:21 PM	#2
Benjamin Heneberry New Boot Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 13	oh my god, was it that dumb of a question? NO ONE has an answer? (sound of me crying) oh, well...

January 29th, 2006, 07:31 PM	#4
Emre Safak Trustee Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brookline, MA Posts: 1,447	Why not simply try rendering it and watching it on a DVD?