FieldAssembler

Description

The FieldAssembler utility interlaces field-rendered images. Field-rendered images are created in a sequence for video playback. Television draws every other line on the screen and then fills in the alternate lines. Each field is one-half of a frame (the even lines or the odd lines).

NTSC and PAL video systems both use interlaced fields.

NTSC video systems, used in North America, display 30 frames or 60 fields per second.
PAL video systems, used in Europe, display 25 frames or 50 fields per second.

Each field is stored in a separate file. For animations that will be played back on television, you can render images into fields. However, to view them on a computer screen or to transfer them to certain other computer programs, you need to reassemble, or interlace, them into full images. The result is half as many files that each have twice as much data.

For information on FieldAssembler, from the FieldAssembler window select Help > Help.

NoteIf you will be using Composer to composite images rendered as fields, you must either interlace the fields together before importing them into Composer, or render the images in Alias PIX or RLA format. You can only import fields into Composer if they are in Alias PIX or RLA format. (In addition, RLA format fields must be named name.1, name.2, name.3, name.4, and so on, not name.1o, name.1e, name.2o, name.2e, and so on.)