Re: output setting for Premeire

If this is interlaced, well, that's your call. I've seen many people here at the cow recommending a deinterlace. While that's great for compositing, you'll also get a big hit on the resulting resolution.

I now almost exclusively work in progressive, but I've never deinterlaced unless it was going to the web.

I bring the native footage to AE and work in a square pixel composition. I do my Keying with Primatte which I can't recommend enough. I also do all my backgrounds in AE, since that allows me to add a light wrap and color matching to sell the shots. I then export with Quicktime Animation (no need for alpha channel).

That's about it.

Cheers,

Vince