How To Reduce Strobes In Progressive?
 

Hi everyone,
I just captured from my miniDV cam (PAL 25 Interlaced), and after rendering out to DV AVI PAL Progressive, very obvious strobes are visible in the motion scenes, even if the motion is slow. So, what settings are needed so that to reduce this terrible strobed look to minimum? Any advises?

P.S.: If anybody wants, I can upload a short clip before-and-after.

50i at what shutter speed? Shooting is as much a part of the quotient as anything.
What are you previewing the footage with? PAL CRT monitor? Or computer screen? If you show progressive footage on a PAL CRT monitor or on most LCD television displays, it's reconverted to interlaced and you'll also potentially see the strobing.

More input, please? :-)

Shutter speed 1/50, previewing on computer monitor crt. I dont know if the moitor is the reason, but when I watch a movie on it (dvd, divx, etc.), I see no any strobes. Of course, its a question of cameras, but anyway I think my problem must have a way to be solved somehow.

chekc your exposure..
most of the time flicker and strobe occurs becuase your levels are exceeding safe levels..

go to view and open up your scopes.. set it up to run RGBand luminance parade and check out the levels through that.. if you notice and excessive peak on teh right hand side, youve blown ur highlgihts and they nee to come down

quick and dirty way is to run "broadcast safe" filter...

Hey, Peter, no, its not that. Maybe I was not clear. I mean that the strobes (or stutters) are so visible in progressive. Its not bcoz of exposure, Im sure that. Hmm, maybe I have to upload a clip very soon.

When I watch some movie, I see that the strobing/stuttering lines are VERY smooth and fine (small), with very high frequency, while the same effect on my footages is with coarse and low frequency strobed lines.
Ok, look: I have a choice on my miniDV cam - to choose 1/50, 1/120, "sports", or just without any of previous options (raw, i think). So, I use 1/50, but is it the best I need for 25fps?
Also, after many variations of render and project settings I discovered that it is much better for my interlaced captured footage when I do this:
1.Changing the field order on the footage properties to progressive.
2.Project properties: progressive, deinterlaced method: none.
3 Rendering out to progressive.

Another question: on the footage properties -> media I see an option "use custom timecode". What does this do and why should I need it eventually? What is the reason to change the timecode?