"Jukka Aho" wrote in message
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G Hardy wrote:

Not to mention that resizing any normal camcorder-shot video in the
vertical direction is likely to throw interlacing completely out of
whack, leading to stuttering images and whatnot when watching the
material on a real tv.

I work with MSP which, up until version 7.3 at least, was OK with
resizing vertically. It performed its resize on each field
separately, then combined the result into a new field-based frame.

Yes, some programs allow graceful handling of interlaced material, which
is nice. Some others, though, treat everything as if it was progressive
frames, which leads to the above-mentioned problems. Then there are
those which don't really keep track of the interlaced/non-interlaced
status of the video, but may have checkboxes for interlaced processing
in the option panels of individual filters and tools, which the user
needs to manually select at appropriate times in order to get usable
results. (VirtualDub is one of those.)

What about Premiere Pro which the OP uses?

MSP is a fairly cheap "pro" editor, so if that can gracefully handle field
order on resize/respeed, I'd have thought the other big names would do so
too...

Mind you, as Mitch Hennessey says - "Assumption makes an 'Ass' out of 'U'
and ''umption'."

G Hardy wrote:

Yes, some programs allow graceful handling of interlaced material,

What about Premiere Pro which the OP uses?

It might, but I'm not sure about that. Even if it does, I don't see the
point in this case. Cropping and resizing the clip would make good,
healthy parts of the picture (that were originally visible) go
off-screen, in the overscan area. It would affect the original framing
and composition in unpredictable ways. In other words, it's just a Bad
Idea.

Masking the offending area, on the other hand (or just leaving it alone
since it's probably wholly within the overscan area and thus invisible
on a normal tv, anyway), would cause none of that.

--
znark

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:16:18 +0300, "Jukka Aho"
wrote:

Masking the offending area, on the other hand (or just leaving it alone
since it's probably wholly within the overscan area and thus invisible
on a normal tv, anyway), would cause none of that.

Yeah, I'd go for masking. Trouble is, these days you have to accept
it WON'T be played on a "normal TV".