Jaggies/Blur upon capture caused by...???

[LukeTruth]

Thanks for reading! My footage has motion jaggies, the kind that you can pause on the right frame and see the combing clear as day. It doesn't matter whether I open it in FCP or QT, it looks the same in both. Here's what I know:

Shot on a Sony DSR-PDX10. Standard definition. 16:9 aspect ratio.

The firewire port on the Sony is dead so I have to use a different camcorder to capture with, a Panasonic PV-GS180.

I just bought a WD My Book Studio 1TB and am using that as my scratch drive.

Captured onto 15" MBP Unibody with FCP6 using the following configuration:

Camcorder to MBP via FW800
MBP to External HDD via USB
(Is this right or should I connect the camcorder directly to the HDD?)

Capture settings: Tried DV NTSC 48kHz and DV NTSC 48kHz Anamorphic. (I believe this Sony is one of the camcorders that shoots in 853 x 480 so perhaps the problem resides here in my capture settings.)

 

[LethalWolfe]

SD is interlaced. Computer monitors are not designed to properly display interlaced material. How does the footage look when played back on a regular, SD TV?


Lethal

 

[LukeTruth]

Yeah I just exported it deinterlaced and it looks fine. I haven't started editing this material yet. Should i do all my editing just ignoring the blurriness or apply a deinterlacing filter to the whole thing?

Some of my final output will be for web and some for dvd.