thanks to everyone who has tried to help on this issue. much appreciated.
it turns out that the initial work was done at 25fps (no fields) but fcp assumes that it’s pal footage and automatically puts the field dominance to upper. we changed the fps to 24 and the same render settings imports in fcp as field dominance ‘none’.
sorry for the wrong info to begin with (i as kinda helping someone else out and assumed that it was done at 24fps).
i’m sure you all know what they say.. “never assume as it makes…”
thanks
anders