Re: Exporting to quicktime

Wait a second. You're saying your sequence is progressive, so 23.976 progressive frames per second. If broadcasters want "interlaced" material, does that mean they want a 29.97 sequence with 3:2 pulldown already in it? In that case you'd be best exporting your sequence in its native format from Final Cut (full res, 23.976 progressive) and then using something like JES Deinterlacer to do the conversion down to standard def/apply pulldown (change frame rate) appropriately. Or, if JES's scaler isn't good enough, use another scaler to go down to 720 x 480 and then use JES to simply add the pulldown.

I'm not sure I'm understanding the target format well enough though, so if when they're saying "interlaced" they don't actually mean "a 29.97 file with 3:2 pulldown from a 23.976 source) then never mind all that.