CompuServe Messages

If the data ain't there, ain't nothin' gonna get it back. Here's the situation in a microcosm: You make a flic of a ball moving. In the first frame in time, the ball moves one inch. If you render to frames, that first frame contains a single ball. If you render it to fields, half the scan lines show the ball in one location, and the other half show the ball in another location. Neither of those positions is the same as where the ball will be at the beginning of frame 2 (regardless of whether you're rendering to frames or fields), and neither is the same as what you got when you rendered it to frame 1 in frame mode. Thus, once you've rendered to frames, you don't have the field data that describes the ball's movement, and you can't get it back, short of rerendering the keyframe data in field mode. – J