Working With Interlaced Footage On Maya

[andrew07]

Hi I am a bit new in doing special effects on Maya and I have some doubts.

I will work with 1080i 29,97 footage for some effects. Generally I will add 3D objects to some scenes.
I will track the camera in Boujou and I will export the data to Maya.

So when I create in Maya the image plane to have the reference of my background and adjust the track of the object, how will I see the fields of the footage ? I believe that I am just watching complete frames. If I add an interlaced footage to the image plane I just see one frame with both fields interlaced. With those ugly horizontal lines you know what I am talking about.

So how will I see individual fields to track my object properly ??

Thanks
Andres

[ptb]

gotta do it in post.

to see your footage deinterlaced in the viewport first deinterlace it in another program (comp tool or virtual dub etc)

if you want to render fields in Maya, then render every 0.5 frame and merge them in a comp tool to an interlaced image.

[fxnurbs]

i don't get your problem, you can load whatever in boujou and track it even with the field. It is not the perfect way but you can.
To be sure you'v got the write pipeline, export your footage into frames without doing anything, if you stay in 30i you will see your field in the pictures.
Use this background to track (if it is a tricky tracking you should have to desinterlace, but you can track as it)
that's it, use the same background in maya by image sequence

done

Cheers