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waloshin

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Original footage is 720x480i (interlaced) FCP 11 and Compressor treating as progressive... is there a setting or something I am missing I want to keep my footage in the original form of top field interlaced not progressive.

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Image on left is original ProRes 422 LT 480i footage and what FCP 11/ Compressor wants to do with it.
 

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The menu you're looking at is the output field order. In other words, you're telling Compressor to create a progressive file.

I'm not sure whether Compressor is able to create an interlaced H.264 file.
 
The menu you're looking at is the output field order. In other words, you're telling Compressor to create a progressive file.

I'm not sure whether Compressor is able to create an interlaced H.264 file.
That is ridiculous was hoping to get rid of Premiere Pro in favour of FCP 11. Seems like Mpeg2 is the only way to get interlaced out...
 
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Looks like they had the ability to export interlaced H264 in Compressor 4.2.1, but dropped support later without notice.

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Hopefully with media extension support from Mac OS Sequoia we will maybe have the ability to export H263 interlaced once again, but who knows... Premiere Pro on Mac OS still supports this so it is a possibility.
 
Since you don't give the only relative and useful information, being which preset your screenshot is based upon, I have no clue what it is you you're doing or why you're getting what you're getting. Because of course both Final Cut Pro and Compressor can output i.e. interpret interlaced files! 🙄 Always have and always will. So I don't know where you're getting your weird skewed information from, nor does it have anything remotely to do with the new media extensions or anything else. 🤨

It's called "user error".

Maybe just start with the correct preset in which case you can set any field dominance you want?

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… as a random example.

And merely HEVC does not support interlacing.

And if the file is not flagged correctly, then neither app can recognize the correct field dominance. Which we don't even know if that's the case, since, again, all relevant information is missing. But if they aren't, you simply set it manually? Again something that you obviously can do in Final Cut as well, in the clip's settings if needed.

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After which you obviously have to use a project set to interlaced as well.


Seems like Mpeg2 is the only way to get interlaced out...

Nonsense.
 
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