[Del Frost]

Thanks.

They came back to me today & said that Adobe had decided to “reinstate” the product but that now it was

[Del Frost]

To be fair, they are rubbish. A bunch of box shifters. But they’re one of the largest of all the box shifters & they were half the price of getting the upgrade anywhere else.

Under normal circumstances, the saving would be worth using a bunch of turbots but not if they can’t supply it, obviously!

[Del Frost]

Thanks for all the help.

[Del Frost]

Thanks.

It will have a variety of applications. My main aim in the short term would be to get a web friendly version, but I hope other uses may follow, so it’s all good head food.

[Del Frost]

Thanks.

So is this not a problem encountered constantly by people using this software?

I mean, how do you play back a QT with fields on a computer? Or do you just “not”?

[Del Frost]

Hmm. There’s no secret, I just didn’t want to go blathering on! I’m making a music video for my mate’s band, primarily as a way of getting into FCP. My source footage was shot on 2 x MiniDV Camcorders & a Hi8 camera.

So let’s see…

Firstly let me say that I do understand what fields are & how they go to make up a TV picture. (Just don’t make me sit a 3:2 pulldown exam just yet!)

In my normal workflow, I create motion graphics in After Effects, render with no fields to an uncompressed Quicktime mov file then use Compressor to convert that to separate Video & Audio files for DVD. (I don’t know whether this results in a progressive scan movie & half of each frame is ignored by my TV or whether the DVD software authors it with fields! It’s never been an issue, so I’ve never needed to find out.)

Simply put, the specific problem I’m having is that when I render my video from FCP & view it on a computer monitor, I can see the fields. However, my preview window in FCP does not show the fields & I thought I might be able to output a high quality equivalent.

Since I can assume (from the nature of your previous reply forcing me to think about it some more) that my source footage is encoded with fields, I assume the preview screen is “faking it” in some way & I also assume that I need to “fake it” to appear progressive on a computer, probably using the method you mention.

Does that make sense, or am I still talking fluent ming-mong?

[Del Frost]

Well, forget the “4 hours” thing. That must’ve been another setting I adjusted without knowing what I was playing with.

In any case, I just set the thing to “No fields” in the settings menu, did a render & it still had fields!

So, HOW DO I RENDER WITH NO FIELDS??! PLEASE!!