FCP to Avid and Back…..

[Kris Anderson]

Just out of curiosity, were you working in PAL or NTSC?

[John Babinec]

All NTSC Digibeta in and out via SDI. Using 422HQ and Avid 1:1 MXF

[Kris Anderson]

Then that’s where your problem was occurring.

You were digitising (correctly) with lower field dominance in FCP and then importing with PAL upper field dominance in Avid. Your Avid import setting should have been lower field dominant (assuming the clips were exported in with lf dominance).