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#Field vs. Frame

    22-Jul-93 10:58:17
Sb: #50564-#Field vs. Frame
Fm: Mike Kelley 71302,73
To: Gus Grubba 70673,1605
Well, not to beat a dead horse, but you say when I "see the results" I'm assuming you're meaning when I render to videotape. Right now I can only render to TGA files — even in the future (with my plans for the Sanyo 950) I think I'll be rendering to disk and then recording the frames. From what I read in the manual, fields are only active when you record direct to the frame buffer/VTR. So, my original question still is: Am I missing something here when I do that? Does my animation, rendering to individual TGA files which are frame orientated, lose something by not having the fields rendered and recorded that way? I'm trying to picture this in my mind (a scary place to be anyway) and what I see is this: that there must be SOME quanitative difference between fields and frames that I just don't get, because when you render a TGA file you obviously have "all" the information you're ever going to see in a picture. Sorry to be so obtuse, but without being able to do the experiment without making the committment I want to understand that I'm not missing something.