Re: HD to SD Workflow recommendations

Yeap, every NTSC SD codec is lower field first.

But if/when you are starting with HD (which is upper first) and going out to DVD you want to keep you field upper throughout the process. DVD will play back sd at upper first if that is the way the footage was shot and edited.

All you are doing is keeping the temporal order of the frames constant throughout the process. Compressor will correct swop the flines if you turn on frame control. Episode also does a correct line swapping. Within Fcp you need a swap fields filter. So there are good ways to handle it but you have to know and test what you are doing.