Lines at top of capture

[Jaap Verdenius]

The Broadcast Safe filter will remove the VITC.
You can check this by exporting a sequence of clips with and without the filter and opening it in VLC which will show you overscan.

This reply is 4 years too late but I was so surprised to find this feature that I just had to put in on the forum – it’s not even mentioned in the manual…

[Jaap Verdenius]

Oh, to be precise:
Not only the broadcast filter, but ANY filter will solve this.
FCP just never processed these lines…
Isn’t life wonderful?