[Mike]

I had this problem when working with DVCProHD footage in Final Cut 4.5. I don’t know if exactly the same as what you’re describing, but text and graphics looked horrible and jaggy and appeared as if they were only displaying one field. This went away if I changed my system settings>playback control to “high” – everything looked horrible under “medium”. Try changing to “high” and seeing if that fixes it.

– Mike

[Mike]

This is very interesting to know, but it makes me somewhat confused. Final cut seems to differentiate between “8-bit YUV” and “high precision YUV,” however, the above posts indicate that Final Cut cannot process above 8-bits. So can can someone please explain to me what “high precision YUV” means in terms of 8-bit vs. 10-bit.

Thanks very much,
Mike