Please assist I am using Compressor 4. I have an interlaced Pro Res .mov I want to keep interlaced as MP4 with H264 compression. Field order: upper field first. I have tried using frame controls but they default to progressive. Pls help . Thanks.

You may be able to so it in two steps: first, transcode, then re-interlace.I don't think you can do this directly – either in Compressor, FCPX, MPEG STreamclip, or QT Pro. But not to say that it can't be done in third party apps; do a Web search and you should see some possible solutions.

Russ

And – just out of curiosity– why do you need to do this? It is a bit unusual.

The only suggestion I have is to go back to the station and see whether there are alternative specs they can accept. (For example, an MPEG-2 Program Stream.) Because I don't know any way Compressor will do what you want. (Also tried AE and couldn't.) Maybe I'm over-looking something and someone else will point out a solution. Sorry.

Russ

The only way I have found is via Adobe Media Encoder. Apple FCPX and Compressor don't seem to handle interlaced files at all well.That's why we've been forced to switch to Adobe.