[Nick Meyers]

in my experience Alexa footage shot off-speed comes to me set to my editing frame rate: 25, or 24 depending on the show.

i don’t know what they do within the camera, but that’s how it comes to me.
nice and simple

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i’ll add that BLENDING the fields can help in some instances, like your wide shots with the stair stepping in your other thread.
both fields get blended together, helping resolution.
BUT
blending won’t do anything at all for what you ask about here,
in fact what your seeing IS a sort of blending.
really bad on movement, can be useful on wide shots.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

that’s not distortion, that’s interlacing.
your video was shot interlaced, 2 separate fields for each frame (look it up)

FCP just shows you one field only, so it looks fine there
computer displays can’t do that, they show both fields at once,
giving you that doubled up look,
and yes, the more movement, the more you’ll see it.

if a computer screen is where the videos are to be seen, you need to de-interlace them in FCP before you export.
FCP has it’s own de-interlace filter, it;s OK.
but Natress G Smart De-Interlace is the best quality de-interlace you can get in FCP.

you can also use the free JES De-interlacer outside of FCP on your exports

if you are making a DVD or going back to tape, then don’t worry, interlaced is acceptable.

cheers,
nick

(and you should upgrade to FCP 7.03)

[Nick Meyers]

Are you still in FCP7.0?
that had some “disappearing clips” issues, from memory
upgrade to 7.03

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Are you sure you didn’t have those clips in another project that was open at the same time?

[Nick Meyers]

check your A/V settings.
you may have slightly different outputs for video and audio.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

either way i downloaded you project, opened it in my FCP7,
and saved out a version4 XML, which you should be able to open in your FCP6
i’ve e-mailed a compressed zip back to you.

i think you’d be better off sorting the original issue on your end though

good luck!
nick

[Nick Meyers]

have you quite FCP, and re-started?
that has worked for me in the past,
along with trashing prefs

nick

[Nick Meyers]

preference files not being there should not be a problem.
what normally happens is that they get re-created as FCP starts up.

do you have a very small, simple project file you can open FCP with?

nick

[Nick Meyers]

the file name “the shape of things 3pm-av-0” could imply that there are other parts to that clip.

back then people often captured with file-size limits, so clips wound up being spread across more than one file.

audio was often captured as a separate file altogether, though the “av” in the file name suggest you have audio AND video together.

so have a look in your capture scratch and see if there are other related files such as:
“the shape of things 3pm-1”

however, that sort of file naming is also associated with media managed material,
where multiple instances of the same clip wind up with those various suffixes
(sorry it’s been a LONG time since i dealt with files like that, so I’m guessing a bit)

nick