Wish I had checked the other replies before doing so myself.

Seems the idea then is for each field to be a independant time-based
subframe, as per what POV-Ray supposedly does, as I reread that section of
the doc.

So... I don't understand what the matter is  :-)

Bob H.

"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
news:3BCFC1E8.529E28A2@geocities.com...
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>
> > In article <3bcdd1c3@news.povray.org> , "Vampyrium"
<cyb### [at] hotmailcom>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >   Field rendering should render alternate scanlines (odd and even
fields) on
> > > the SAME frame at DIFFERENT timepoints (at frame in-point and frame
> > > mid-point)
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > Of course you need other software to do it, that is the whole point!  I
am
> > not aware of any external software that can handle an image file the way
you
> > expect POV-Ray to output it.  On the other hand, I know plenty of
software
> > that imports the output POV-Ray currently generates.
>
> When I was working with video (U-matic, S-VHS and Digital Beta tape,
CubiComp,
> NuVista, Targa and other hardware, Picture Maker, Macromind3d, 3D-Studio,
> Stratavision, Lightwave and other software), the kind of image Vamp
mentioned was
> the type of image we worked with.
>
> I'll have to run POV through some checks to see exactly what it's doing...
and
> how it's output can be piped properly to broadcast. It could be as simple
as
> compositing frames from fields in post (which seems to be what Thorsten is
> saying). IIRC, when I looked into this in 3.1, I said to myself something
like
> "oh, that's strange... hmmm.... Ah, I see. Still useful". Now I just have
to
> remember the details of all that.
>
>
> In the meantime, here are a few quick links I found on google
>
> http://www.mcqpro.com/html/FieldRendering.html
>
> http://www.greatdv.com/video/fields.htm
>
> http://www.adobe.com:80/support/techdocs/102b2.htm
>
> Nice field diagrams:
> http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/fields/fields.html
>
> http://www.commotionpro.com/support/white_papers/fields.html
>
>
http://www.puremotion.com/videoediting/reference/technical/interlacedvideoex
plained/
>
> --
> Jon A. Cruz
> http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html
>
>
>

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