Progressive or interlaced

You can't upload uncompressed DV... So for interlaced clips uploaded to P5 you need to render as motionJPG.

Just to clarify, if you are shooting in DV, you should submit your footage using the native DV codec.

Both MotionJPEG and PhotoJPEG codecs are OK for non-DV material. Usually PhotoJPEG is preferred for progressive material, and MotionJPEG is best for interlaced material.

For more info, check out our specs document here.

Hey, how about we just get rid of the quicktime garbage and upload in native m2t.? Now that would be killer! )

I know that Marcus has said that we can encapsulate M2T in a QT container, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that in Windows.

Any hints, Marcus?

Never mind, I figured out how to use FFMPEG to copy the H.264 stream from an M2TS file into a .MOV container. How I just have to figure out how to specify the clip range...

You can download FFMPEG for Windows from here:

http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/builds/

The command line I use to copy the stream without audio is:

ffmpeg -i myfile.m2ts -vcodec copy -an -y myfile.mov

Also going back a step whether interlaced or progressive is better, I would suggest depends on your subject. Some shots look great in progressive and some look great in interlaced. Do some searches on the different styles of shooting for both and I reckon you will learn loads.