thanks eric!
n my case its not had but just pal 16:9. it wont work without fields,
tis for TV and they're kinda picky.
sigh... i hoped there is a workaround. so far my script seems to work,
by switching it right before each frame, but i dont know how much safe
that is.
ciao
franky
Wednesday, December 27, 2006, 6:36:26 PM, you wrote:
EL> Oh boy.
EL> I went through this non-sense a few months back.
EL> Save yourself the headache. Render out full frames and have the
EL> fields created in your comp. XSI basically renders 2 full hieght
EL> frames and interleaves them anyway, so you are actually not saving
EL> yourself any render time doing it in XSI.
EL> So trust me, just do it in the comp. I went half mad trying to
EL> get it to work right inside XSI, it doesn't work, and if you let XSI interleave it you are stuck.
EL> Field rendering in HD looks awful, I still can't understand why
EL> anyone would want to use it. It looks smoother, but your get half your vertical resolution!
EL> E
EL>
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EL> ----- Original Message ----
EL> From: Frank Lenhard <franky(at)ixdream.com>
EL> To: XSI <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
EL> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:31:39 AM
EL> Subject: field rendering in xsi 5.11
EL> Hello,
EL> i try to render out a bunch of passes with upper fields (hd/pal)
EL> problem however is, that the field option sets itself back to lower
EL> fields, after i closed the render dialogue or reloaded the scene.
EL> right now i try to get around that by execute a pre render script that
EL> sets the order right. but thats not so much safe it seems and i wonder
EL> if there is a workaround or fix for that?
EL> minor but annoying bug.
EL> also, whats the half resoltion option is for? i dont dig the math
EL> behind it.
EL> i render 1024x576 which is pal 19:9 with quadratic pixels. that
EL> picture will be shrinked in editing to 720x576 with squished pixels.
EL> when i render full rez fields i get 2 pics with 1025x576 and a
EL> interpolated one with the same size. thats fine.
EL> half rez however it gets me something like 5xx by 576.
EL> what is that good for? how do you make use of that?
EL> ciao
EL> franky
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