Problem exporting Quicktime 1080i

I'm using PPro CC, sequence and footage is 1080i 29.97. When exporting to a Quicktime H.264 file, I select the preset for 1080i 29.97. Upon export of the file, I can re-import it, and PPro interprets it correctly as 1080i (upper field first).
But, MediaInfo interprets it as Progressive (under Scantype).
I've searched these forums, and even googled for the answer, but can't find anything.
I don't know if it's a bug in PPro (or AME), or in MediaInfo.
I work for a TV station, and all of our spots/shows go through FlipFactory, which I believe scans the files the same way MediaInfo does, and don't want issues.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks everyone for getting bak to me. Your advice was helpful. After messing around further, I noticed that in the viewer window in FCP there is a little pop-up window which allows you to choose the size of the window as a percentage. At the very bottom of it, there is a choice that was checked off: "Show as square pixels." When I uncheck that selection, then it plays the movie within FCP with the same aspect ratio as the exported movie in quicktime.
As someone pointed out above, this has to do with the dimension of the pixels in DV, which are rectangular. So my new question is this:
Which is the correct way to display the image? Should I have the "show as square pixels" checked or unchecked within FCP? Or is the true image when it's unchecked, and the way it appears in Quicktime after exporting the movie? The quicktime movie looked stretched to me, but maybe that's just becuase my eyes were used to the "show as square pixel" version within FCP.
If anyone knows the answer to this, I'd appreciate it. And thanks again for all your help.
Bill

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I did what you said and the "exported" file says:
Kind: Final Cut Express Movie File
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Total Bit Rate: 30,313
Why am I trying to export?
Before I ran into trouble, I would export my FCE project using the Export Quicktime Movie command.
I then used iDVD (set to 16:9) to burn to DVD.
It worked perfectly before.
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I'm having recurring issues exporting out a 960x540 h264 quicktime on my macbook pro running 10.8.2 to the "iPad, iPhone 4 & Apple TV" setting...(actually, it's happening to ANY quicktime clip I choose regardless of size or codec)
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I'm having recurring issues exporting out a 960x540 h264 quicktime on my macbook pro running 10.8.2 to the "iPad, iPhone 4 & Apple TV" setting...(actually, it's happening to ANY quicktime clip I choose regardless of size or codec)
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Try an alternative work flow.
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Format                           : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Format profile                   : QuickTime
Codec ID                         : qt
File size                        : 2.06 GiB
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Overall bit rate                 : 30.3 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-08-17 18:12:37
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-08-30 17:05:26
Writing library                  : Apple QuickTime
©TSC                             : 25
©TSZ                             : 1
Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvpp
Codec ID/Hint                    : DVCPRO
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 24.4 Mbps
Width                            : 703 pixels
Original width                   : 720 pixels
Height                           : 576 pixels
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Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Standard                         : PAL
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:1:1
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
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Scan order                       : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 2.414
Stream size                      : 1.95 GiB (95%)
Language                         : English
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-08-17 18:12:37
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-08-17 18:15:18
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Format                           : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Format profile                   : QuickTime
Codec ID                         : qt
File size                        : 2.06 GiB
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Overall bit rate                 : 30.3 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-09-24 19:59:53
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-09-24 20:01:56
Writing library                  : Apple QuickTime
©TIM                             : 00:00:00:00
©TSC                             : 25
©TSZ                             : 1
Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvcp
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 24.4 Mbps
Width                            : 720 pixels
Height                           : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio    : 4:3
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Standard                         : PAL
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
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Thank you for your answers! I'm so confused about this. It seems to be problem with field orders, but original video is lower field first, my project is lower field first, sequence is lower field first and export is lower field first.
Here is the screenshot of my Sequence settings
And here is Export settings:

Problem Exporting QuickTime Movie.

Hey guys, when I vew my project in the canvas it doesn't play smoothly between clips. It's like it gets stuck on the last frame of the first clip for a split second. So I exported it to Quicktime movie and when I play it back and it skips and sort of glitches when it gets to the second clip. However, when I exported it using quicktime conversion, it plays smoothly. So why would it do this in FCP and when exporting to QuickTime movie?
My Sequence settings and clip settings all match, and they are: 23.98fps, 1920 x 1080, and the compression is H.264.

Sigh....
You are editing H.264 files in FCP. FCP doesn't work with H.264 well. Why the heck Apple allowed it to seem like it would work is troubling. But...whatever.
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I saw the previous discussion and will reformat my hard drive (Thank you for that info!!!), but can I copy these files (with av attached) to another drive and put them together again as a qt movie? I've captured many hours and would like to use what I've done already. When I open the original av file, qt asks me to open other associated files, and they all play together on the screen. But I can't save them. When I've tried to save them as other formats, they just get saved as audio files, even with avi or dv extensions.

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For 1080p via iMovie '11, just remember to optimize video for “Full – Original Size”.
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Premiere CS4 Does Not Correctly Export Quicktime

Hello,
When CS4 initially came out, all of the Quicktime exports were messed up. Now after several patches it still seems that it is not completely correct. I have rendered out of a 3d app sequential images with a white background and an alpha channel. When I import these into Premiere, when the alpha channel is disabled for the clip, it correctly shows a white background in the monitor. But when I export this clip to Quicktime Animation and turn on 32 bit depth, it creates the clip with an alpha channel, but when the alpha channel is disabled on the clip, it renders the background still as black, but with no alpha. It should render it as white. Quicktime Animation clips created this way with other Quicktime exporting software does not do this, and so I believe this is a bug. Where can this be logged?
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It's not a problem with Quicktime, but rather Premiere CS4 because other apps can create the same thing correctly, using the Quicktime Animation codec.
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I work with Premiere Pro on a mac and export quicktime movies to be played on pc's or mac's

I work with Premiere Pro on a mac and export quicktime movies to be played on pc's or mac's. When I export a qt from Premiere with audio it will not play on a pc only a mac. After extensive research I have narrowed down the problem to this: if you use the inspector in quicktime it looks like this
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Two questions:
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Resolution problems exporting to DVD

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The footage did come from an HDV from Sony.
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FCP6. Right there in the question title. Version 6.0.6, if that's important.
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Hi everyone,
I have to get a workflow with the Rosendahl bonsaiDRIVE (portable video and audio multitrack recorder) and After Effects up and running. Unfortunately the only files that server accepts via Ethernet are Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2 Quicktime files with a leading header. It no problem creating those files with Quicktime Pro. I just have to check Prepare for Internet Streaming and it works fine.
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Hello AE wizards,
The Problem: After exporting our HD After Effects project to QuickTime the playback stutters just a bit. It will run along fine and then it jerks/hiccups. This happens at various times during playback. We have tried many different export settings but no luck. We would really appreciate some help with this. Thank you.
About our project: We are creating an intro animation for viewing on our computer monitor and for DVD. The movie will be made up of only High Res photos separated into several layers to create a 3D effect. We import the .psd files, add the layers to the timeline and check 3D layers. We create space between each layer on the z axis and then move a camera through the scene. The project dimensions are 1920 X 1080 and the photos are as big as 2000 px X 2000 px. The movie length is about 2:00 min.
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Yes. I've viewed your quicktime and...
The stutters are actually already in your animation, they are NOT being caused by playback issues.
You can see this by single frame advancing through your animation, you will quite often encounter frames where nothing changes when compared to the last frame, and you then get a jump on the next frame. This means frames are being dropped during rendering of the animation or the master file you are using has gone through some sort of frame rate conversion. Probably you have converted from 24 frames per second to 29.97 frames per second which requires repeating a number of frames/fields per second (5.97 frames) , these repeated frames will destroy the illusion of smooth motion.
Heres something you can try:
Check the original animation file by step framing through one frame at a time. Do you see frames that are exactly the same as the previous one? If the answer is yes... then you need to re render the animation, try doing it at the same frame rate you plan to output (29.97fps).
If the answer is NO... then just use the native framerate of that file to do the rest of your project. ie. DONT upsample the framerate to 29.97 or anything else.
The other option is (if the actual real time sync of the animation doesnt matter) to go back to your original animation file and just play the 24fps animation at 29.97 at one to one frame. So we discard the playback rate of the input file (24fps) and just display one frame of the input for each frame required at the output. This ensures that the motion will be smooth, (because we are not repeating frames to keep the duration the same) however it will be playing back slightly faster.
I happened to find this topic because I'm researching how to get smooth playback of quicktime movies on a desktop screen. Its actually proving incredibly hard. Even if you manage to create a master file that actually has your smooth animation in at 24fps... chances are Quicktime will frak it up for you... because it dynamically changes the framerate on playback to suit the display anyway.
If your on a Mac then your desktop is probably set to 60Hz (Which really means 59.94Hz). So re-rendering your 3d animation at 29.97 is probably your best chance at getting smooth motion in the final viewing.

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