[Loren Risker]

I haven’t seen this on either my mac pro or mackbook pro. It really looks like a video card issue, like perhaps some bad vram. I’d bring it to the Apple Store and possibly replace it while you still can.

[Loren Risker]

What does your system log say when your beach balling (console.app in the utilities folder).

If it’s a problem with your hard drive you’ll know there because you’ll be getting a lot of Disk I/O errors.

My money is physical damage on the Hard Drive. You have plenty ram.

[Loren Risker]

It sounds to me like you have your field dominance wrong. If that’s the case, deinterlacing it wouldn’t help, you need to go into the project settings.

Make sure when checking for this that you’re playing video back at full quality and 100% of size.

Does the same shot look fine if you open up the raw file in quicktime (make sure to play back at “Actual Size”)?

Is your source footage 60i? How is your project set up?

SD is usually lower field dominant I believe, so probably what you’ll need to do is set your project to interlaced with lower field, then deinterlace taking away the upper field.

It’s been awhile since I’ve worked with interlaced footage, so someone please let us know if I have this confused.

[Loren Risker]

This looks like interlacing artifacts or at least something funky with field dominance. What’s your source footage from? Is it interlaced or progressive?

[Loren Risker]

I get the same message sometimes, maybe because it’s a USB drive?

https://imgur.com/Ctg6l

[Loren Risker]

Here’s what I would do:

Export a quicktime from FCPX, just use the timeline settings to get a raw video file.

Compress that file using compressor and an h.264 setting. The auto youtube one will be fine. That will compress it enough to make your data DVD.

Then use that quicktime to make your DVD-player DVD. What program are you using to burn it? Sounds like the data rate might be too high for older/cheaper DVD players. I prefer to use Toast with automatic settings for easy burning.

[Loren Risker]

My first guess is you somehow didn’t put your ins and outs correctly. Could this be the case?

[Loren Risker]

I’ve never seen 24.02 frame rate, maybe it’s a PAL thing?

If you have FCP7 or 6, you might be able to run it through cinema tools to convert it to 25fps. I’m also pretty sure After Effects does it easily.

I’ve mixed 23.98 and 29.97 by converting 23.98 to 29.97 using cinema tools if I remember correctly, so surely it’s not hard to conform the 2.

If you’re already done, probably not worth the trouble, but if it comes up again I would thing conforming would be easier than doing manual retiming.

I’m not sure about the rate conform in FCPX, I’ll have to look into that.

[Loren Risker]

Sounds like mismatched framerates to me, can you check?

Easiest way is to open the source video file in quicktime, hit command-i to bring up the inspector, and see what it says there.

[Loren Risker]

There might be a couple problems with your workflow.

You might find it helps to deinterlace your 60i footage before sending it through compressor if you’re getting interlacing artifacts such as combing.

As for the resolution, HDV 1080i is actually the same as 1920×1080, but because of the aspect ratio of the pixels it comes in as 1440. Changing the pixel aspect ratio to square should result in a 1920×1080 file, if FCPX doesn’t do it automatically.

I haven’t run any HDV 60i footage yet, but if you need more help I’d be happy to try to recreate your workflow and see if we can’t clean it up any more.