…if you render anything out with fields off that used to have fields, you are de-interlacing everything you worked on and without a specialized plugin(like topaz) you are at the mercy of AE’s deinterlacer which is of poor quality.
“output from FCP to DVCPRO HD” that will be equavalent to re-interlacing progressive footage which will furthur reduce the quality because now every frame will have to become only a field.(that’s why animation is rendered at 2x the fps of the output)
So, after all’s said and done, you’ve only lost 4x quality…
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Now the best way to do this for an example in an ideal situation, is render out all 23.976 stuff without pulldown, then after it’s rendered, reimport and do a quick 3:2 pulldown pass(https://wwwss) or use a Kone 3 to add pulldown for you to tape.
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