[Robert Eidschun]

Even if the field dominance setting of your Sequence is “None” and every clip in your Timeline has a field dominance setting of “None”, then your transitions may still render interlaced, due to a bug in FCP that I have personally verified through extensive testing.

The best thing you can do is complain to Apple. If enough people complain, perhaps the problem will be fixed. Alternatively, if you know an Apple developer with an inside connection, have that person complain.

By the way, one user reports having this problem beginning with FCP 6.0.3.

[Robert Eidschun]

Update:

Deleted com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist and QuickTime preferences, both located in /users/username/library/preferences, then restarted computer.

Following that, deleted Final Cut preferences, OBJ cache and Prof cache files located in /users/username/library/preferences/FCP user data/

Result: scaling down a clip using “Scale” on the Motion tab now works fine, without the loss of quality that was occurring previously. However, use of the “Replicate” Filter still results in the same loss of quality as before.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Robert Eidschun]

If 24-bit audio is imported into Final Cut Pro, then placed in the Timeline of a Sequence whose audio setting is 16-bit audio, then processed in some way — say, by adding reverb –, will the processing be done with 24-bit resolution, or will FCP first convert the audio to 16-bit, then process it?

Thank you.