Re: Workflow FCP FieldsKit - Twixtor

[Tom Kramer] "et when I reimport the quicktime-exported clip to a PROGRESSIVE sequence, it is interpreted by FCP as LOWER FIRST, and a warning pops up stating that field orders do not match - which in fact both logically as well as actually they do: The clip plays back fine, no matter if I set the clip's field order to NONE or leave it set to LOWER.
Actually, it is OK from an INTERLACED timeline, too, no matter what the settings are(?)! Plus, no warning there.
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As you said you did, I would suggest after you reimport your deinterlaced clip which is erroneously labeled Lower First, I would suggest manually setting the the Item Property for the FIeld Order of clip to "None" before placing into a sequence. You can do that by right-clicking (or control-clicking if you have a one-button mouse) on the clip in the bin, then choosing the "Item Properties...-> Format" menu item in the context-sensitive menu that pops up. THen right-click (or control-click) on Lower Field in the Field Dominance row and change it to "None".
[Tom Kramer] "However, the twixtored clip (DEINTERLACED, so far) has to go back to an INTERLACED timeline. What now?
Just plug it in there, and let FCP handle the reinterlacing upon the final output? Probably not, as you wrote: "

Well, what I would do if you want deinterlaced out is to put the progressive clip in into a interlaced timeline (the timeline where you have Twixtor!). That way Twixtor can figure out that it is creating interlaced output (because it reads the sequence settings) and does the proper thing to create inbetween fields. If you don't need inbetweened fields and just need progressive footage displayed in your interlaced output, then what you suggest you did works fine.

[Tom Kramer] "There should not be any fields in an already deinterlaced clip, right? Do you mean that TWIXTOR does create different speeds, depending on output field order"

No, it doesn't create different speeds, it just creates inbetweens for each field if the output field order is set to something other than progressive, and doesn't create the inbetween fields if the output field order is set to None. Does this makes sense?

Pete