[MacDV] Capturing in iMovie and FCE

[Erica Sadun]

At 11:36 AM -0800 1/12/04, Ken Schneider wrote:
>I did a little experiment and surprised myself.  I captured some DV 
>footage into iMove which looked great.  I then imported that iMovie 
>footage into Final Cut Express and it still looked great - just as I 
>expected.  However, if I capture that same footage directly into 
>FCE, I get horrible interlacing on the edges and the footage doesn't 
>look as sharp.  I expected there would be no difference between 
>capturing in iMovie or capturing in FCE.  Do I have something set 
>wrong in FCE or is this normal?

Sounds like a field order issue.

-- Erica