yes, it is not only necessary because that is the way the images are sent out, but also for motion blur. When using fields, there is a motion blur effect that goes on that makes motion be very nicely seen. Without fields, it looks choppy. With fields, you are effectively rendering at 60 fps (US) 50 fps (EU).
This is what i’m getting back from each frame - but its how its playing back again. There’s no speed up of the animation or nowt like that. Any ideas whats going on here? It looks fine in the VSE but when i do sequence it plays back like this!
If you are going for 29,97 fps ntsc or 25 fps pal interlaced tv, you should use fields. If you are going for 24 fps progressive you should not use fields.
24 fps images can later be converted to 23,976 fps with pulldown in order to display correctly in an ntsc tv.
ok this is interesting - what about if i wanted to play24 fps back on PAL? I’d rather not use fields as its messing up with the renders as you can see from the image above