Tried everything recommended and even different combinations of project and timeline settings and while I can get full timeline renders of 29.97, I cannot get individual clip exports of 29.97. I believe there is a technical limitation to this.
Here's what I tried and the results:
1st Setup
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Project Settings:
Timeline Resolution: NTSC 720x480
Timeline Framerate: 59.94
Enable Interlace Procession: unchecked
New Timeline Settings:
Timeline Resolution: same as above
Exports for Single and Individual Clip come out as expected 59.94, Progressive
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2nd Setup
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Project Settings:
Timeline Resolution: NTSC 720x480
Timeline Framerate: 29.97
Enable Interlace Procession: unchecked
New Timeline Settings:
Timeline Resolution: same as above
Exports for Single 29.97, Individual Clip 59.94 Progressive
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3rd Setup
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Project Settings:
Timeline Resolution: NTSC 720x480
Timeline Framerate: 59.94 (no 29.97 option because Interlaced was checked)
Enable Interlace Procession: checked
New Timeline Settings:
Timeline Resolution: same as above
Exports for Single and Individual Clip 59.94 Progressive
As you can see, I get 59.94 on Individual Clip exports. Now, it somewhat makes sense since the fields would have normally displayed for 1/60th of a second and this NLE is designed to deliver progressive media; therefore, it seems that Resolve inherently deinterlaces and generates frames based on adjacent field information, so it seems. What I need is to deliver in the DV encoded media that I am editing off of, so I can process the fields externally. I do not want Resolve to deinterlace. That is why I wanted to process the timeline into clips...so they can be used independently. So far, it doesn't seem possible to edit DV content and deliver DV content as interlaced video. Is there something that I am not setting correctly?
I was able to export a timeline as a progressive video of interlaced fields. That is not helpful though because I cannot process that externally...so I won't mention how I set that up.
Update - I found another post:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=81592Now, what I have is not h.264 video but DV files from a Sony Hi8 video cam. Regardless, it seems that Resolve just won't deliver interlaced video. If that's the issue, then I guess that's that. Can this be confirmed? I will try to find the time to read the manual but I don't know when I'll have the time to do that since, I do have a work-around for what I'm trying to do but I'd like to know if editing DV content can rendered to DV-based media. It's like I'm trying to take a book and turn the chapters into smaller books...if that makes sense.