Field Order?

Cincyfilmgeek wrote on 9/14/2007, 11:17 PM

Should I use None (progressive Scan) for my project that I am burning to dvd or should I use lower or upper field? What is the difference? And could this possibly be why when my actors move they have a slight blur in their motion? It just seems the picture is not crisp enough around edges and such, almost like the edges have some digital artifcats. Does this make sense to anyone? I really could use some advice here.

Thanks,
David

Comments

GlennChan wrote on 9/15/2007, 12:37 AM

1- You should generally use the presets.

2- If you want your project to be progressive, then use none.

If you want your project to be interlaced, then upper/lower depends on the format. You should be fine by using the presets.

Generally speaking, you want your project to be the same format as what the majority of your footage is. (Though there are exceptions.)

3- There is motion blur in your footage???

4- When you encode the footage for DVD, you can explicitly tell the encoder that your footage is progressive (if it is actually progressive). It's somewhere in the settings.
Progressive encodes more efficiently.

5- Chances are you have interlaced footage (unless you shot frame mode, progressive, or 24p). So just stick with the right/normal presets and you'll be fine.

Soniclight wrote on 9/15/2007, 12:47 AM

Not the most experienced person here, but from what I know:

--- Fields (for output/render) -- As the Vegas manual states, upper and lower are used for TV viewing platform. I use progressive in all my stuff since I'm not shooting for that medium at this point. If/when, I would simply change it on output.

--- Blur -- there are different forms of blur, one being due to interlacing, i.e. "jaggies." That comes in part from what level of camcorder you are using. As far as in-Vegas, I don't know what bit-rate you are using. For example for .wmv use at least 1 Mb./1000K.

But not knowing more about your project, i.e. the resolution of your footage or what its and the project's fps - or your project settings are, I'm going blind here.

So I'd suggest you be a bit mored details specific.

And if you can, upload and link a quick render of your problem area. That way people here can see what the circumstances are. (See sticky post on markup language here for links, etc. if not familiar with hot to do it here).
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