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Work with interlaced or progressive files

Work with interlaced or progressive files

From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder

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Work with interlaced or progressive files

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- Interlacing is something that you wanna be aware of when you're making your exports. It's a way of rendering video where the lines are separated. The lines of pixels come up one at a time and there's the even lines and then the odd lines. And that's how the video is actually created. So interlaced video always has two fields, even and odd to create every frame of video. The opposite is what's referred to as progressive video that refreshes all pixels at once. When you the I such as 1080i, that means interlaced video and when you see the P, that's progressive. Computer monitors are all progressive. That's how they actually render the video at the end of the day. And when these things don't match and sometimes when interlaced video gets compressed poorly, you see a certain type of distress, it's usually called combing and you've probably seen this before. You can actually see the field separating a little bit. And there are some settings that we can look at that can help ameliorate…

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