[David Frank]

This is on several project files ranging from 4megs to 12megs.

I never had this problem using the computer before with the same amount of RAM which is why it’s odd that things are happening now.

Is there something I could adjust in the Memory & Cache prefs that might help?

[David Frank]

Thanks Dave! Changing the interpretation to upper and then making sure the render settings and output module both were Upper first did the trick.

I appreciate you giving me the right lingo. I had used field dominance/order interchangeably, until now.

I have no idea you needed to interpret the footage in AE. Does it always assume there is no field order? When I went into the interpret footage window, I had to change it to upper field. Weird that it doesn’t figure that on it’s own.

The footage is in Quicktime format with the XDCAM EX VBR codec. It seems silly that I would need to convert it to animation codec(which is enormous) to get proper renders from FCP. What is the reason? And does CS5 fix it?