The DVD's I've been outputting looked very aliased - staggered lines everywhere.  Not nice on £20k's worth of CGI 3D that I imported as TIFF sequences!

I've been trialing and erroroing it a bit, but find that if I import some of the TIFF sequences as starting wiith ODD fields first, then this seems to fix it (the DVD encode & burn will tell).  Some however are best imported as progressive - which is puzzling.  Shame I cant ask the £D Max guy tonight :(

What would tend to be the default & should I stick to burning the DVD with Odd fields dominant?  Cant be wasting MORE disks!!!

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PS a tip for anyone batch importing stuff again due to problems with the original material is to MANUALLY delete any effects etc on the track as any RENDERED already will effectively mask anything new you pull in. This may also be the case with rendered tracks above not 'seeing' the new batch imports as it appears the same, with same settings etc?

Well, I re-imported much of my TIFF seq media, with 'odd' field selected as first field.  This fixed it up nicely (remembering to re-make previously rendered effects on 'same' material.  I then exported a QTR with Avid DV Codec enabled (whites clip out on a DVD if you dont - another 2hrs lost!), transcoded to MPG2 using Sorenson with Bottom field first enabled, and used DVDit to author (without it transcoding what Sorenson made further - I THINK).  Result I have a nice smooth DVD and the clients LOVED it this afternoon :-).  Job done....you would have thought....

I came back after handing it over and it is all aliased and zig zagged again.  I could cry!

I see nothing about output firld/frame settings in Avid?  What IS going on???  I think I miss good old tape now - these b electronic formats!!!

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