Editing Field Sequential Video

Well you know i am not sure. If someone would have asked me if a normal dvd player would play 60 fps then i would have said no. But i was told that these types of movies (shutter glasses with an infrared control box) wont play on lcd TVs because they arent fast enough. Same with Projectors. Must be used on a regular TV or maybe some special equip. So i just did more reading on the subject...

The name is it really i guess. Field Sequential. So it must be interlaced frames or fields maybe. So it would be just 30 fps or 29.97 really. But with interlaced frames. The shutter glasses sync with the monitor or tv to show each eye the different fields. But you would think you would loose your smoothness of motion without the normal use of fields...

I am a bit out of my league here with the field sequential video. I normally just use side by side for my 3d video and we use a realtime converter for projection.

So if it is just some kind of interlaced video what are my best options?

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So after more reading... i now know what interlaced video is. Have never had to deal with it i guess. So i assume that it is interlaced video left eye and right eye sharing the full resolution of the image. If i understand that properly. And the limitation of viewing with shutter glasses is that most new displays dont use interlacing.

So are there editing recomendations for this?

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Funny i have been reading non stop about all these things that i have basically just ignored over the years as i just use premier for basic functions.

So my first attempts at converting and editing may just have been bad because i was trying to force it to 60 fps.

I will attempt a DV conversion and then open it up in Premier and check out the fields.

Are there formats that i should stay away from that dont support interlaced.

I should have done my reading first. Sorry.....

But i did find a great article on Interlacing and why you need to understand it.

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Does anyone know if there is a list of good codecs to use with interlaced video. I have been looking and am not really sure i have found anything. I look up information on certain ones i normally use and they have all come back as not suporting interlaced. And you are not supposed to edit with mpeg 2 so what is my other option. There must be a good codec that supports interlaced.

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Yes DV is great but it makes huge files. Which i know is the best but i am not doing a masterpice here. Something that is good quality and medium compression would be great.

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Well Huge is that i am not set up as a video production house so moving and editing 100 gig of movie files for no reason just doesnt make sense to me.

There must be an alternative?

And when i was checking codecs quite a few of them dont support interlaced.

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Ok so i should use DV you say.....

I own Premier so that is what i use. No sense using a differnt program but thanks for the hint on that.

Because of the special nature of these files. Is there a way i can view the individual fields to make sure i am getting the proper filed dominance for each clip. I am sure they will all be the same but i want to make sure. I cant have the left eye right eye changing sides in the middle.

I have looked and i can seem to see anything.

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So if i did use Elements what is the easiest way to get the Vob files to normal mp2 files?

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Well we shall see how fun it is....

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