Getting lines when replaying video in FCP 6

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Vampiresoup

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OK so I recently made the upgrade to FCP 6 and there's a lot that I like about the program. I'm having some trouble with capturing 23.98 footage though.

I used to set it to advanced pulldown removal. After my footage was captured Id have footage that played at 23.98 and I'd edit in that timeline.

Now, no matter what I do I seem to get 29.97 footage even if I capture with advanced pulldown removal

on top of that ALL OF MY clips that I play in FCP look like they're interlaced with lines going across them. This is even the case with clips that I captured before I upgraded and played fine in FCP 5.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Andrew
 
After some searching this is what I found. If anyone has anything to ad, that'd be much appreciated.

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/garchow_jeremy/final_cut_pro_6.php

Interlacing changes
Something has changed in how FCP handles interlacing.

As it is now, if you’re working in a progressive NTSC timeline, you have to interpret every single file that is in your timeline, or that you want to put in your timeline, as having a field dominance of None.

This bit me hard the other day. I didn't have time to stop to figure it out when the client was there, so we dealt with a soft picture and kept editing. After the 14 hour client edit session was over, I had to go back and manually change every instance of a clip to a field dominance of None.

These were clips that were captured off of tape and existing CG motion graphics clips. Some of the motion graphics clips had been rendered progressive, which was fine, but some were captured from tape and all video was captured from tape or given to me as 8 bit, 10 bit, or DV NTSC files. All of these clips should have had a field dominance of lower for output, but that's not how it worked.

With FCP 5.1.4 and below, if you put a lower field first clip into a progressive timeline, it played and rendered just fine. Things can work out fine in FCP 6 as long as I remember, every time I put a clip into a progressive timeline, I have to make sure that I set the field dominance to None.
 
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