I've been wondering about these fields for a long time, and so, I might as well ask about them on the forum.
Firstly, what exactly are these "fields." I know that they are used in video, and that most animation on DVDs and TV broadcasts are sent as "fields" as opposed to full frames. At least, that's what I believe I've heard about them. Nonetheless though, what exactly are they, if I'm incorrect there.
Secondly, being somebody who went to the first attempt at showing the AMV contest at AX2002, I heard about the blunder that was their reversed field orders. Why did reversing the field order mess up the showing of the video, and why would it show the "hand moving down, then jerking back up again," that the announcer spoke of (i thought it would just do the funky interlacing, myself).
Thirdly, when working with video editting, I've set scenes to work in reverse. There is massive interlacing that occurs when I do that, and to fix it, I have to, "reverse field dominance." Why is that? what exactly does reversing the the field dominance do?
Fourthly, when I make a video and reverse the field dominance on that clip, if I were to export it to an MPG or something like that, and send that file to an MPEG, would that clip have a problem with the reversed field order (like AX2002), while the rest would be okay?
