Avid Behaving Badly #15: Rendering a Scaled Effect on a Framerate Converted Clip Breaks Field Order
You know how sometimes you feel like you've dealt with all the weird shit that the version of Avid you're using is ever going to throw at you, and you're fucking Avid Superman around the office? And then this happens. This weird, absurd, ridiculous problem. I mean, I just wrote that title, which is an exact description of the issue, and it still looks like goddamn gibberish. So what error am I talking about? Well, none. Avid doesn't give an error in this case, it just spits out video that's corrupted. If you, unlike Avid, know what fields are, the rendered video has the fields out of order. The resulting image looks like it has scan lines, or some kind of fucked up interlacing, or something. It's all shitty looking on the screen, basically. Now this is a rare issue. It seems to only happen when you do all of the following: Step 1) Convert the framerate of your source video clip to another framerate, either by editing with it in a different framera