Re: Some questions about NTSC

Thank you all for your time and this detailed answers! Things seem much clearer to me now.

I worked on some NTSC edits in the past, but it was just capturing into FC, cutting and back to tape. This time while capturing, I got error messages about DF / NDF; strangely only on some clips from the same tape. This made me start worrying about those fraction frames, and how to handle them in AE. After your comments, I'll stick to NDF, since time isn't relevant in that project.

I know that converting to a different codec won't improve the footage, but as Keith wrote, the idea was to have a larger color space for color correcting. So thank you for confirming my thoughts.

De-interlacing the footage with FieldsKit is because most of the final images will be composed out of many different shots, to give a "tiled" look, like in David Hockneys works. I supposed nudging, moving and slightly rotating around progressive footage is easier, because there won't be any problems with the fields. Not sure if that assumption is correct.

Again, many thanks for your answers! Unfortunately because of the budget, we have to shoot in DV-Cam, the other option would have been a small HDV camera, but I know that keying HDV is a real pain!

Bohdan