Re: Frame rate changing issues + interlacing issues

Yup, yup, your right. That's weird, I have no idea why I thought that never worked. Thanks for the offer of the tutorial, very kind, but as you say, it just works fine.

On a similar topic of questions that I've always wanted to ask but never gotten round to it, there is something else…

If say, I render out a video from a 3D app interlaced, and then import it into AE, if I then decide to increase or decrease the size of the footage, or add camera shake for example, does this not shift the interlacedness of the footage and produce some kind of flicker or strange result when it's rendered out interlaced again from AE?

I don't really like rendering out progressive from 3D and then combining it with AE animation, I've found that when this happens, the result is that the motion of the 3D has a slightly different feel to the animation done in AE, probably something to do with the fact that the fields in the AE bits are essentially different (ie if an object is moving right to left, it will be further over to the left on one of the fields on a single frame), while the 3D is kind of fake interlacing, in that the two fields will be of the same frame, just seperated. I suppose the alternative is just making everything progressive, and then interlacing it after it's rendered out of AE. So this way at least it would all be 'fake interlacing'

I hope I'm making sense…