• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Rendering Drops field issue

  Posted by John Elmendorf on August 2, 2008 at 3:46 am

  After unsuccessfully trying to search for a solution, I’m turning to the cow for some info. Cutting on a Mac Pro 8-core with FCP studio 2. We are working with footage captured as NTSC D1 29.97 in ProRes HQ – timeline settings matches the captured footage. Footage looks great when playing back cuts-only. But as soon as a graphic or transition is added (and rendered), the footage appears to become deinterlaced – or drops a field. The timeline is set for bottom field interlaced. Any advice would be greatly appreciated since I’m stumped. I can’t understand why the quality would drop so dramatically.

  best,
  je

  John Elmendorf replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Andy Mees

  August 2, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  [John Elmendorf] “The timeline is set for bottom field interlaced.”

  change it to Upper Field, John, and you should be golden
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  John Elmendorf

  August 5, 2008 at 1:05 am

  When I mentioned Bottom, I was referring to the “advanced” setting in the codec dialog. I missed the field dominance in the sequence settings. I set it to lower and voila – rendered fine. Lesson learned. Don’t forget to set the field dominance in an interlaced timeline (too many progressive projects lately).

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