Quick Start in Premiere Pro

The step-by-step section below, Using Frames in Premiere Pro, will walk you through applying the Frames Premiere Pro plug-in in a DV or HDV project.

NOTE: This version of Frames uses the newer FX Plug standard and will NOT run in Premiere Pro in versions earlier than 2.0.

Using Frames in Premiere Pro

Creating deinterlaced output from 24p media is easy using Magic Bullet Frames. If you are starting from a 60i source, then you can covert to either 30p or 24p with pulldown. If you are converting from 50i source (PAL SD or 50i HDV), then you can use the Deinterlace option to get 25p media.

NOTE: You should NOT use the 24p Conversion option in the Frames plug-in for PAL sources. The resulting frame rate will be effectively 20p and will look wrong and be incompatible with most output formats.

Here is how to setup and render a Frames project in Motion.

Step 1. Create a project of a size and duration to fit the media that you would like to convert from interlaced to progressive or to 24p from a NTSC 60i source. Your project should match the frame rate of your input media (29.97 for NTSC or 25 for PAL).

Premiere Project
Settings for a PAL project destined for progressive output

Step 2. Import your interlaced footage. Remember that it is important to start with interlaced footage. Frames does NOT convert progressive formats such as 30p to 24p. Import the media via batch capture or double-click in the empty area of the Project window to choose a file from disk.

Step 3. Put your footage into a sequence and apply the Frames plug-in from the Effects Tab > Video Effects > Magic Bullet filters category. Simply drag and drop the filter on to your target media. If you don't see the Frames filter, check the section on installation.

Premiere Effets Liist
The Frames plug-in in the Effects tab in Premiere Pro

The default option is Deinterlace Only. This simply takes 60i or 50i media and coverts it to progressive format at half the rate, either 30 or 25 frames per second. If you have NTSC 60i media, you can change the Mode menu to 24p Conversion which does frame rate conversion and pulldown insertion.

Premiere Frames GUI
The Frames plug-in in the Effect Controls tab

Step 4. Render the project to disk by choosing File > Export > Movie. You can render to the destination format set in the project settings, or click the Settings button to change the destination codec in the Export Movie Settings dialog. See the Exporting section of the Premiere Pro online help for more information on choosing export settings.

Premiere Export Settings
The Video Export Settings in Premiere Pro showing the Video codec options