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    Field Order for a PAL DVD project

    Posted by David May on April 16, 2011 at 7:08 am

    Hi all

    So there is a lot of information floating around about field order and the correct settings to use on this forum, but unfortunately im still coming up empty with regards to sending a project to compressor.

    I have a 3.5 hour project that I want to render out as a quicktime file from fcp, compress into mpeg2 in compressor and put onto a dual layer dvd in DVDSP. Because the project is so long i cant really make any mistakes here seeing as time is of the essence.

    My sequence setting is ProRes 422 1920×1080 25p, with the field order set to ‘none’. I read somewhere that this was the best bet, am now wondering if i should have left it as ‘lower’. Should my field order settings be different so that my dvd will play fine on both a tv and a computer?
    I think ill cry if i discover my field order was wrong and i have terrible interlacing lines.

    With that sorted, do you think that If i was to export this project as a self contained quicktime file using ‘current settings’, will there be any issues with encoding it onto a PAL DVD once ive used compressor to get it into MPEG2?
    Ive got a lot of info about the best settings to use in compressor to get all that video onto 1 dvd so no so worried about that.

    As always, the help is much appreciated!

    David May replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Michael Gissing

    April 16, 2011 at 9:04 am

    The correct settings for PAL SD is interlaced and upper field for all codecs except DV. So if you have DV material in a ProRes422 SD sequence, set field order to upper and the shift fields filter on all the DV footage.

  • David May

    April 16, 2011 at 9:39 am

    Thanks for the advice

    none of the footage is SD though, most of it comes straight of a 5d MKII and is conformed to Prores.

    Ill be making it SD once I run it through compressor, just wanted to know that if I leave the field order on the project as none, wont have any issues when I turn it into MPEG2

  • Rafael Amador

    April 16, 2011 at 9:47 am

    [David May] “most of it comes straight of a 5d MKII “
    Then you should have edited on a Progressive sequence, and deinterlacing the interlaced footage only.
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • David May

    April 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    Thanks for the help!

    All turned out very well

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