Fields

Interlaced media carries alternating scan-line fields that may represent different instants. Fields [FLDs] is a technical Fusion utility for manipulating those samples in a limited part of a Flow, rather than an artistic image filter.

The primary orange Stream1 accepts a 2D image. The green Stream2 is optional and specifically used for Interlace when two separate field images must be combined. The Output remains image-domain data, but image height and temporal sampling can change.

Source interlace flags, original frame rate and clip interpretation are typically configured in MediaIn/Loader and project settings. Selecting an NTSC or PAL/HD mode in Fields does not rewrite the source metadata or automatically perform a complete standards conversion.

Strip Field 1/2 discards one set of scan lines and HALVES image height. Strip Field 1/2 & Interpolate replaces removed lines with calculated values, maintaining frame height but never recovering actual missing detail.

In Fusion documentation Deinterlace SEPARATES fields from a stream, producing double the number of half-height frames. This is not synonymous with a modern motion-adaptive full-resolution progressive deinterlacer.

Interlace COMBINES fields: from one stream, pairs of successive frames form half as many double-height images; from two streams, Stream1 supplies field 1 and Stream2 supplies field 2, producing double-height frames. Source timing and geometry still matter.

Do Nothing is not a global bypass: the official description explicitly says that Process Mode still affects how image data is processed. Bypass the node or use a separate direct branch for an untouched comparison.

Reverse Field Dominance and reversed Process Mode choices correct field-order interpretation; check on moving objects. A still image cannot reliably reveal temporal dominance, and double reversals may negate each other.

Process Mode specifies the processing format of the OUTPUT image: Full Frames, NTSC Fields, PAL/HD Fields, two reversed choices, and Auto. The original captures show PAL/HD spelling even where older documentation used PAL Fields.

Three screenshots from the supplied site document the Controls and dropdown labels. They do not show socket wiring or actual rendered timing; graph validation and a manual citation are not substitutes for native Resolve verification.

Four bilingual exercises isolate diagnostic bypass, height-preserving interpolation, genuine two-input Interlace, and half-height field splitting. All expected temporal behavior must be checked with moving frames in the installed host.

Only pass this output to tracking, enhancement and MediaOut after checking what the downstream pipeline expects. If the requirement is full-height progressive delivery, evaluate source settings and a dedicated deinterlace workflow instead of assuming Fields produces it automatically.