Hello,

I imported material from avi-files with the wrong field order. In order to solve that problem I deleted all media-clips and only kept the master-clips. Than I used "Batch Import..." to reimport the material with the right field-order and to relink it with the master clips. That worked quite fine. But now there's one problem: If I add an effect to the clip in the timeline it renders in the wrong (old) field order. I think the problem is, that I forced another field-order during reimport and did not change the original field-order stored in the master-clip. Can I somehow change the field-order in the master-clip or force the field-order during render-process?

Thank's in advance...
Mathis

OK, I just found out something... In my sequence there is a part, where several clips fade up and down one after the other with some black in between. The black is the Avid-internal black filler (I just dragged the clip in the segment-mode and moved it forward and Avid added black between the clips). The problem with the wrong field-order only appears on fade-up. Therefore I think that just the black filler is in the wrong field order and the effects gain their rendering-field-order from the first clip (which is on fade-up black). Is there somewhere a project-wide setting that adjusts the field-order?

Which format are You editing in? PAL, NTSC? DV, HDV or?

Atleast DV-PAL is tricky about field order.

FWIW Filler black has caused a reasonable number of problems over the years when encoding to other formats.  I have always used a Goodies bin with a QT black movie imported to it at all possible timeline resolutions. This has worked reliably for me so I have not checked in the last few years that it is still prudent to do so.