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

[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...