[Mark Wesley]

Thanks Enzo
You and your Australian colleagues have been a great help. I also have checked Google for info and came up with a Creative Cow link that seemed quite helpful:
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=1&page=/articles/onneweer_barend/deinterlacing/index.html

My guess is you’ve seen this.

The whole issue is rather like Russian Dolls where each new doll reveals its own version of clarity!!

I’ve been racing ahead with my AFX skills, but have not been paying attention to the basics. I’ll take more care in the future. Once again, thanks for your help.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Mark

[Mark Wesley]

Thanks Enzo.
Sorry to continue to trouble you, but you mentioned that DV is generally lower field first. I shoot a lot of DVCAM. Bearing in mind the time relationship between the lower and upper field, in a PAL TX upper field first world, how do we get the lower field to appear correctly as the upper field without the reversed time order problem that might accur by using the ‘later’ DV upper field? Or is PAL DV actually upper field first anyway?

Ive just read that paragraph though again and I think I know what I mean!! Do you?

Mark

[Mark Wesley]

Hi Enzo.

Thanks for your comments. Typically, shortly after posting my message, I discovered the little arrow with the drop down options, so I can now set field order. However, the news of the variability of PAL field order is very interesting. I wonder if the variations are listed somewhere? I do know that PAL broadcast here in Britian is upper field first and while it’s less of a problem when viewing on a computer, it sure makes a difference when watching on your basic domestic TV. Particularly with captions and graphics.

Thanks for your help.
Mark

[Mark Wesley]

Thanks for your reply Jim. I was curious about this issue when someone advised that I use a caption generator such as Inscriber to ensure broadcast quality text with good clean edges etc. But, as you point out, AFX is commonly used for all kinds of broadcast work and I don’t recall anyone recomending using an alternative to the on-board text generator.

I tend to render out AFX at highest res. Full AVI uncompressed 720 x 576 PAL. However, if there is a better way to get the best output resolution please let me know.

Once again, thanks for your help.

Mark W.