field rendering for NTSC

[Andy Young]

Does one HAVE to turn on field rendering on the camera control panel if going to NTSC or can this be added later in another program such as After Effects?

[jeremyhardin]

one does not have to. all my work is ntsc, and i never use lw's fields.

[Extent]

Usually you can getaway with just using motionblur.

You can't add true fields later in compositing unless you render out at 60 Frames/Sec and interlace that, since a frame made up of two fields contains image information from two seperate "time slices" you can't work with data that is not there.

[js33]

To use fields or not is really your choice. It also depends on what is happening in the scene. Fields will make the motion look smoother on a TV but they look bad and shouldn't be used on a progressive scan device like a computer monitor. So it really depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Cheers,
JS