Interlaced to Progressive

Nov 2019

When importing clips in to Adobe Premiere, content in interlaced format is a nightmare when you have multiple clips, for this reason I convert all interlaced content to progressive.
This works on HEVC and H.264, but I need to work out how to do MPEG2 clips.

ffmpeg.exe -i input.mp4 -vf yadif -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 19 -c:a aac -b:a 256k output.mp4

To make things easy, put this in a batch file (progressive.bat):

ffmpeg.exe -i %1 -vf yadif -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 19 -c:a aac -b:a 256k %2

Then use the following syntax:

progressive.bat infile outfile

You can download this batch file.
progressive.zip