Premiere Pro CS3: how to turn off frame blending?

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

I've had to upgrade from Premiere 6.0 to Premiere Pro CS3, which is kind of like going into your somewhat grubby but pleasantly familiar bathroom and suddenly finding a giant array of high-tech knobs and spouts and mystery tubing where your old shower used to be.

Question for vidders: how the hell do I turn off the Frame Blend option for all clips in my project file/on my timeline? There's a Frame Blend choice in the Clip section of the main menu, but when I select more than one clip, that option greys out.

I'm not even sure what Frame Blend does, but I strongly suspect it's blurring the clips unnecessarily. Right now the only option I can see is turning it off on every single clip by hand, which is not good for my RSI or my mental health. Help?

Comments

[milly.livejournal.com]

I've been using CS3 for about 6 months now, and I'm not sure what you're referring to. Could you screencap or give a bit more details? It might be something that occured from transferring your project from 6.0 to CS3, because I don't think I've come across Frame Blend so far (though admittedly, my CS3 is installed in french because my computer is set to french default, so I might know the term as something else. Doesn't sound a familiar bell though).

[yunafire.livejournal.com]

I've run into this thing all the time. Its highly annoying. It auto-puts all clips to "Frame Blend" which, as the original poster says, unnecessarily blends the vid. I don't have any footage off-hand to take a cap of, but I do know when you right-click on a clip, its the the option just above "Scale to frame size"

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Yep, what yunafire said - here, let me try and do screencaps.

The Frame Blend option shows in two places,

once when you right-click on a clip (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/2588969191_a047188268_o.png)

and

once when you go to "Clip > Video Options" in the main menu. (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2588969213_04d005f65d_o.png)

It's set to be enabled by default, and whenever I try to turn it off for more than one clip at once, the option greys out. Grar.

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

I doubt it would blur frames universally, but I expect it uses frame blending on speed changes to make them "smoother"... which I suppose is a step up from premiere 6 which did its fugly deinterlacing thing and made everything look furry.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Well, I dunno about a step up - at least in premiere 6 we could turn off the fugly deinterlacing for the whole project! *is ungrateful*

I'd rather turn it off and if there's any smoothing necessary, do that with avisynth...

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

I have not been able to figure out anything other than manually, clip by clip. Which, yes, can get physically painful.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn, I'm sorry to hear that. Though I will continue to hope that someone has a trick or workaround for this!