• Adobe After Effects

  720p50 footage into a 576i project

  Posted by Michael Duff on September 23, 2013 at 11:30 am

  Hi,
  I have a project I’m working on which is PAL 576i but I need to combine with some 720p50 footage from a DSLR.

  Can I use the 720p50 footage and make it so that each full frame becomes a half frame in the 50i composition? Basically I want to output 576i but I don’t want to lose the motion when I get to the 720p50 footage. In my head it seems possible … just cut out every other line on the 50p footage and it will be the same as 50i footage …? But how to do this?

  Appreciate any help on this. Thanks

  Kevin Camp replied 12 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  September 23, 2013 at 3:58 pm

  you would bring the 720p50 into a 576 25fps comp, scale the footage to fit (if desired) and then when you render you’d click the render settings and choose to field render (pick the order) and the output will be interlaced.

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  Michael Duff

  September 23, 2013 at 5:02 pm

  great. super easy! and doing this I won’t lose any temporal resolution right? each rendered half frame will be taken from one of the full 50p frames?
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  Kevin Camp

  September 24, 2013 at 12:11 am

  yep, depending on the field order chosen, even frames will become one set of fields and odd frames will the the other.

  Kevin Camp
  Senior Designer
  KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

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