[Tom Higgins]

I got a little help from autodesk support and a discreet discussion forum. I haven't tried any of this yet but it may help. These were two seperate comments I got and left the names off since they would not know I would end up quoting them here. If this works for anyone let us know. I'll be working on it Saturday.



"Render an image sequence out of max (png or tga) instead of quicktime so there’s no compression issues from max to premier
Bring image sequence into Premier
Render Quicktime out of Premier using the correct codec."



"dv is 720x480, 29.97 fps and lower field dominant... period.

i'd suggest rendering image sequences from max at 720x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 0.9 for 4x3 "regular" tv. [1.2 for 16x9 widescreen full frame]. frames or fields, your call there. since max cant work at 29.97, you'll be going thru a slight frame rate conversion anyway. let premiere do this.

i'd recommend never, and i mean ever rendering to a compressed format from max. let premiere do this on the final output."