Chello

     I'm working in an SD 16:9 show at 29.97 and we have some beautiful animation that is a bit higher resolution (1280x720) as well as being 30fps.  In DS assist everytime I import the file using the 'scale to fit" setting the animation looks bandy and fieldy.  I've turned the field dominace of and on and am getting the same results.  This is an animation of a building so I really wanted it to look as pristine as possible.  I'm assuming its something in the capture settings I'm missing.  Any ideas out there?

AB

Check the online help for the various capture options.

And may I also suggest that you link instead of importing these larger than your sequence format files?  Then you can use a DVE and specific properties to enhance the image quality.

If this animation is progressive instead of interlaced, like SD video normally is, you must set the DVE to read these images as frame-based, and you'll get much better image quality after this media has been processed for play back.

There are also a few filtering options that might help optimize your images.

I forgot mentioning that because you use the DS Assist then you are probably monitoring the images on the computer monitor, and not an external video monitor.

The DS viewer does not do a very good job at correctly displaying interlaced (field) images on progressive computer display, and so do not rely too heavily on this for the final preview.  You must monitor the final show on a hardware equipped DS, or via another application and video hardware.

Unless your Assist is also equipped with one of the supported AJA monitoring options.

I tried linking the clip in assist and the option isnt event present when I rick cllick on the clip. 

AB

I'm guessing the file is Qt?

If so then linkng is not possiable in X64...

A (somewhat ugly) workaround would be to import it into a custom (1280x720) project , export as a file seq (DPX for example), and then link to the DPX, and then go on as per Sylvain's suggestions...

d.

I use similar workflow for linking QT in X64.  Most of the case, convert first with TMPGEncoder (batch processing!!! ) in TIFF seq. then link to DS.  

Not bad for me: it's work, only a litlle more time for preparation