[Jake Penta]

Thanks! I may or may not have found a loophole. Converting one clip and dragging it into the timeline makes all of the other clips work fine.

No problems yet.

[Jake Penta]

I am a huge newbie, so please bear with me. ( I got FCP a week ago )

Essentially they are “.mov” files, I imported them in iMovie 08 and located them with finder. They are all .mov files. When I go to

RightClick>ItemProperties>Format it says it is MPEG-2 Video. Its compressed that way.

I’m not getting clipping or anything when I edit, and the only problem is the horizonatal lines.

The original aspect ratio without the Horizontal distortion is fine in “viewer” but when I go to “canvas” and start editing in the sequence, they are there.

I’ll attempt converting them, but if there is any other way to make them work I’d like to know because I’m not a fan of quality loss.

[Jake Penta]

I seem to be having the same problem. I have the same settings

(720×480) MPEG-2 Video
NTSC CCIR 601 Pixel Aspect
29.97 FPS

I get the same problem and I really cannot figure out what it is. I am about to go mad! Really if you could help at all, I am ready to start from the beginning.

Jake