Create interlaced or non-interlaced clips

Last updated on Jun 24, 2025

Learn how to optimize video delivery by creating both interlaced and non-interlaced (progressive) clips in Premiere Pro for different platforms and playback devices.

Interlacing is a technique developed for transmitting television signals using limited bandwidth. In an interlaced video, only half the number of horizontal lines for each frame is transmitted at a time. Premiere Pro allows you to create both interlaced and non-interlaced (progressive) clips.

  1. Right-click a clip in the Timeline panel and select Field Options.

  2. Select Reverse Field Dominance to change the order in which the clip fields play back.

  3. Select one of the processing options:

    • None - Doesn’t apply any of the Processing Options. Selecting this option does not disable Reverse Field Dominance, if that option is checked.
    • Always Deinterlace - Converts interlaced fields into non-interlaced, progressive-scan, frames. This option is useful for clips you want to play in slow motion or in freeze frame. This option discards one field (retaining the dominant field specified for the project in the Fields setting in the New Sequence dialog box, General tab). Then it interpolates the missing lines based on the lines of the dominant field.
    Note:

    In a sequence with No Fields (Progressive Scan) selected in the Fields menu, Always Deinterlace retains the upper field. However, in this type of sequence, if you also select Reverse Field Dominance, Always Deinterlace retains the lower field.

    • Flicker Removal - Prevents thin horizontal details in an image from flickering by slightly blurring the two fields together. An object as thin as one scan line flickers because it can appear only in every other field. This option blurs consecutive lines 50%; it does not deinterlace the clip. It is especially useful for graphics containing thin horizontal lines.
  4. Select OK.

    Tip:

    To improve the appearance of video when the clip speed is not 100%, turn on frame blending. Select Clip > Video Options > Frame Blend.