[Hughlutley]

Without getting my pedantic head on, I’m just querying this because I am genuinely interested. The camera itself does store the progressive frame within an interlaced video signal by storing the lines in a certain field order. Would it not be wise to maintain the correct field dominance that the signal started with?

Or a better version of the question is, what problems might you encounter (if any) if you don’t maintain the field dominance of a progressive frame encoded within an interlaced signal?

[Hughlutley]

Don’t fret mate. Your camera has captured the footage progresively but it is still stored as an interlaced signal. Instead of capturing one field at a time it has captured one whole frame and then stored that in both fields.

The short and curlies of it all is that just capture it and edit as if it was regular PAL DV footage. Your system won’t actually know that it’s 25p but it doesn’t have to.

Have fun.

[Hughlutley]

VTR style interpolation refers to a more complex manipulation of the fields found in BVW-75’s or DVW 500’s etc. It does more than just spit out the one field. I have tried it with frame blending off but it is pretty jerky as it is now single fielded only.

[Hughlutley]

Thanks for the respone Jerry but like I said in my post I have looked into plugins but I repeat that they are too cpu intensive and time consuming. I have had a search through the forums about Compressor and interpolation but nothing came up. Anyway, when I have just minutes or seconds to get an edit ready I was looking for a far quicker and simple solution.