Field order/Options??????????

[dax_brule]

This whole field concept has been killing me and idk what to set it too in my project. Ive searched countless hours and its all too complicated for me to understand. Can someone explain to me in cave man terms what is feild order, interlancing and just that whole thing. 
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

-Dax Brule

[Steve Griffiths]

Yes it's complicated, so therefore hard to simplify to caveman terms 🙂

However the question to ask yourself is do I even need to worry about it?

Unless there is a pressing need for you to deliver a program interlaced or you are working with interlaced source material - don't!

If at all possible I get my camera people to shoot progressive (not interlaced) and all my post production is progressive too. After Effects renders = progressive, Premiere Pro sequence etc. = all progressive.

The outlier is - any work I do for Network TV is all interlaced output (upper field first). That does not mean the source material is interlaced, though it sometimes is.

None of the above actually answers your question to 'explain' interlacing but being a complex subject please let us know if there is a particluar case you have that requires 'interlacing'. Otherwise - set your project to progressive and live happily ever after 🙂

[dax_brule]

Thank you. To be honest I know that I don't need to know what it is I justed wanted to know what it is for shake of knowledge about my craft. I kind of understand the generality of it I guess I just have OCD about learning everything so I can know in case it ever does pop up im ready. Thank you!

[Ann Bens]

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/interlacing-field-order.html

Old fashioned dv (sd) and hdv camera shoot interlaced.

Nowadays most cameras just shoot progressive.

Which camera do you use and what what will the final desination of you movie be.

[dax_brule]

I use a canon ESO R and final destination is usually social media aka YouTube, Instagram, vimeo, etc

[Ann Bens]

Your camera Canon EOS R shoots progressive.

Just drag a clip into the New Item Icon or into a empty timeline to get a matching sequence:

Make sure you copy entire card to hdd first and ingest via Media Browser.

As for Youtube pick a H.264 preset (you can tweak the bitrate if you want)

[dax_brule]

Thank you so Much appreciate the response!

[SAFEHARBOR11]

I'll just add for any other readers, even if you do start with an interlaced video source and interlaced sequence, such as 1080i, when you export for web/computer viewing you always want Progressive as computers do not display interlaced very well, will look nasty. So always export as progressive (unless interlaced content is specifically required).