Importing Progressive footage from After Effects

Everytime I render progressive footage in After Effect it is interpreted with a field dominance (upper) once imported into FCP. I can't find how to set this in the prefs... Just have to change it once it's been imported in the browser. Any idea ?

I understand the footage is progressive but is the Comp in AE also progressive or is it set to upper?

Nope, the comp is progressive, and so is the rendered file. I just don't get why FCP guessed its interlaced...

lhdor12 Wrote:
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> I understand the footage is progressive but is the
> Comp in AE also progressive or is it set to upper?


Field order is no an attribute of a comp in AE. A comp is neither progressive nor interlaced, you choose in the render queue how After Effects should calculate field order (or not at all) when rendering the comp.

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Mack Truck Wrote:
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> Everytime I render progressive footage in After
> Effect it is interpreted with a field dominance
> (upper) once imported into FCP. I can't find how
> to set this in the prefs... Just have to change it
> once it's been imported in the browser. Any idea ?

I suspect FCP assumes all 29.97fps or 25fps media is interlaced, which makes sense in a way.

My bad. What I mean is that the render settings was set to Progressive (field render is off).
I have noticed it depends on the codec: with Animation, FCP sets the field dominance to interlanced, but with ProRes it's progressive.
So I guess FCP assumes the field dominance according to the codec...

Mack Truck Wrote:
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> So I guess FCP assumes the field dominance
> according to the codec...

Yeah, I'm sure that's part of the calculation. Good call.

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> So I guess FCP assumes the field dominance
> according to the codec...

Yup. FCP doesn't "sense" field dominance, so on occasions it is known to set it wrong.



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