Field Dominance

[Floh Peters]

[J Jordan] “We move the footage around in the comps. I think that’s what’s making them blurry although I don’t know why?? “

The basic problem of interlaced footage.

To work with interlaced footage correctly AE deinterlaces it and treats it as full frame footage with twice the framerate. So let

[J Jordan]

So does it matter if I move my footage 2 pixels instead?
What am I suppose to do if I need to reposition someone?
This is also new since we’ve been loading our HDV footage in through Component NTSC.
Is there a work around?

Thanks Floh.

I’m trying to follow what you said, I kind of get it.
But I’m still mad it works that way.

[Floh Peters]

[J Jordan] “So does it matter if I move my footage 2 pixels instead? “

2 pixels is good.

[J Jordan] “What am I suppose to do if I need to reposition someone? “

If you can, and if you don

[J Jordan]

What about if I scale the footage down?
Yikes!

[Floh Peters]

[J Jordan] “What about if I scale the footage down?
“

Then it does not matter. You then only need to make sure that your field order settings are correct for the imported files and for rendering, and that your comp size and pixel aspect ration is okay.