Hi guys-
Thanks for the good advice – I upgraded to H264 under Quicktime in advanced format conversions in compressor. I set my size to 50% of source which ends up being 960 X 540 – I changed the frame rate to 29.97 and pulled quality to best – it all looks great playing through QT player at full screen on my desktop. If I change any of these variables I get the crappy lines on edges again. I do not see any indicator in compressor that we are doing a telecine or what the pulldown is but I am assuming it is automatic in the conversion between frame rates. When I look at it visually I cannot see the 2:3:2:3 frames running progressive or interlaced as described by Tom but it looks as though every 5th frame is duplicated. GREAT QUALITY!
In response to Rafeal – when I put it in a 29.97 timeline and just render the bad lines come back.
I tried to get the # above (960 X 540) to be closer to 720 X 480 so as not to confuse online house- but cannot seem to work out the math for anamorphic, there is no preset close to this # – probably a dumb question – assuming they can cope with it.
Roz