[Christian Michel]

Hello again, i found the mistake, it was of course my fault.
while concentrating on the settings in the output module i missed one switch in the render settings: under time sampling field render was turned off. sorry for that and dave: thank you for your patience and help!

[Christian Michel]

dave, i know that i have to use the render queue and set my settings there, sorry if there was a misunderstanding. Still, my footage is already set to 25 i with upper fields first, when i choose for example mpg blue ray as output module i have the choice of rendering in fields, which i don´t have with quicktime. normally i use ae as a compositor whith 3ds max, where i mostly work with 30p. there i don´t have any problems with rendering out for example as wmv. now it´s the first time i have to work with interlaced footage and i just can´t get an interlaced film out of ae, although my settings are set to interlaced in the footage and in the output module.

[Christian Michel]

Thanks you for your quick answers, dave.
i now have the original footage as qt animation, but the same: when i am rendering this out as quicktime in ae, i don´t have the option to choose render in fields, and i get a progressive movie. you mentioned the adobe media encoder, how is the workflow after effects to media encoder?

[Christian Michel]

well, i am using ae cs4.
for motion tracking i exported the footage to autodesk matchmover, the tracking worked well, my problem is that ae renders out progressive and not interlaced.

[Christian Michel]

well, i am using ae cs4.
for motion tracking i exported the footage to autodesk matchmover, which worked out pretty good. the only problem is to render this comp as interlaced footage, always get progressive no matter what output module i use.