Deinterlace?

[Steve Braker]

That’s certainly not normal.

Assuming you’re looking at it on an external CRT (from FCP or from tape or DVD), if you’re seeing jaggies with motion you probably are getting fields reversed. If this is the case you would also see unusual jaggies on diagonal lines when there’s little or no motion.

If you’re looking at FCP canvas or viewer or any kind of computer display, then that is normal for intyerlaced video to display that way. It’s ugly but that’s the way it is. You can get rid of it in those distribution channels be deinterlacing (losing some vertical resolution in the process).

[Terry Moore]

Thanks for the reply. I’m seeing it on both the 30″ Apple monitor and the Panasonic LH26000W LCD monitor. FCP is feeding the NTSC monitor via SDI cable.
I could e-mail you a sample of what I’m seeing if you’re willing to take a look.

Or if you look at this website I found, it will give you a pretty good idea of what I’m seeing.

https://www.joe.luckylackey.com/video/dvcapture/DVcaptureprobs.html

Thanks for your help.

[Steve Braker]

See my post above. That’s normal.

You’re viewing interlaced video on a device that doesn’t display interlace. It’s that simple. You are being shown two fields, witch represent two slices of time, at the same time.

Just because that’s normal doesn’t mean you’re in the clear, though. You won’t know whether you have interlace related problems unless you monitor it as intended – which in this world is still a CRT.