[Martin Seemungal]

Thanks, yes–this is good to know. And I understand your point. It seems like a lot of the main networks are still broadcasting in interlaced format and therefore use Interlaced based/60i in north america and 50i in Europe and elsewhere. It’s unfortunate because I agree progressive is the way to go.

[Martin Seemungal]

Thanks again- editing and rendering interlaced seems to be working well. Have you had any experience using the MAGIX mp4 template and setting it to interlaced/upper field ? It’s default setting is progressive but I see you can ‘customize’ it to encode/render interlaced. Just curious if there would be any benefit to using the MAGIX ..which creates an mp4 as opposed to , say , using one of the equivalent ‘mxf’ templates.? in my case the XDCAM EX 35vbr

[Martin Seemungal]

Great, thanks. Very helpful. If I do run into lagging and editing in 30p helps then would I be able to switch back to 60i before I render? any issues with that?

[Martin Seemungal]

Thanks John. Very helpful. In the past when I’ve used progressive material. Usually dji or GoPro I have dropped it into the 60i timeline with no issues (other than the usual lagging problem) but my camera material has always been 60i. So this is good to know since I am switching to 30P.
One other thing that may or may not relate to the 30P/60i issue.
My ‘full resolution render quality’ is set to: ‘good’ should I change that?
Motion blur is set to : Gaussian
Deinterlace is set to: blend fields.
Any issues with those settings?