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Field Render to DVD
Hey everybody,
please forgive my ignorance but I have a question about rendering to fields for dvd output. If I’m using none or very little actual video footage, and my comp consists of mostly 3d renders and keyframed animation created in AE, do I render to fields or frames if the destination is dvd?I’m currently rendering with field rendering off, and it looks fine on my monitor but when played back in a dvd player I’m seeing what appears to be interlacing in any fast motion. I assumed that if I didn’t have interlaced source footage to deal with I wouldn’t have to worry about fields. I’m rendering out an uncompressed avi from AE, then bringing it into Premiere and burning to a dvd from there. Maybe Premiere is the culprit? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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It’s much more complicated than simply using or not using fields on the output. But, umm, your DVD is destined to be played on an interlaced display, a television set top box? Then you should incorporate fields in every step of your workflow. Every step. That is, you can’t bring a non-interlaced comp into a field-aware sequence and expect it to behave.
If your DVD is destined to be played back on a progressive display then fields may or may not be necessary. Depends on the playback system and the display.
These are two rough guidelines. The decision to maintain fields is complicated by yor delivery and your tolerance for essentially doubling the rendering times.
There are entire books devoted to progressive versus interlaced production.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thanks for the advice. I’d really like to understand this issue better, can you recommend any particular book on progressive vs. interlacing?
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