[Daniel Low] “What kind of project?”
The horizontally scrolling text was built in After Effects, rendered as an animation Quicktime, then imported into Final Cut Pro for playback and layoff purposes.
[Daniel Low] “What kind of television? (CRT or Flat Panel)”
Both. Since the client had originally rendered the text with no field dominance in After Effects, and Final Cut plays back lower field first, both my Flat Panel AND CRT were showing field jitter.
[Daniel Low] “Quicktime is a wrapper than can contain codecs that are both progressive and interlaced so whoever told you that was wrong.”
As I mentioned, the client would like the Quicktimes in photo-JPEG or H.264, which are codecs, according to the settings available to me, that do not allow for interlaced compression. Compressing the video in a codec that allows interlacing, like DV/DVCPRO, would result in too large a file size, so that is not an option. The purpose of this Quicktime is for approval.
[Daniel Low] “You should tell the client that you don’t know enough about Quicktime to help.”
Alternatively, I could ask about the subject on Creative Cow, and possibly learn something. That’s why people ask. To learn.
[Daniel Low] “Perhaps you didn’t deinterlace it very well.”
Perhaps you could have offered suggestions to my problems instead of trolling. Perhaps that would have been a better use of your time, and mine.
[Daniel Low] “In the same way as you would with any other video format.”
…Is there anyone out there with actual knowledge on the subject, that might be able to offer any real suggestions or help?