Quicktime vs FCP?

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Mimpi2

Ok so i'm sure most of you are probably have read many a thread regarding capturing footage, and it seems the general advice is to play around with the different settings until you've got it right...

This is where I am confused...

Most of my footage was shot on a camcorder (Sony - HDV HC9).. and i'm using final cut pro for editing... I am from Australia, and the frame rate is 25fps - so I am assuming the format is PAL.

After several different attempts of at capturing the footage correctly, I thought I had found the right setting through the 'easy setup' window, as follows:

Format: HDV
Rate: 25fps
Use: HDV - 1080i50

The camera communicates with the mac no worries, and seems to capture with no problems also - I can even watch the clips in the viewer of FCP with no noticeable reduction in quality... (even when viewer is expanded to full screen).

However, If I try to open a clip through Quicktime for viewing, the quality is severely compromised with a shadowy, trailing, jumpiness (especially footage of moving objects)...

My question is:

Is it normal for Quicktime to play the clips at a poor quality, when FCP seems to play them beautifully in the viewer? I doubt this....

If it is not normal... has anyone got any ideas as to what i'm doing wrong here??

Thanks in advance...
 
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ok just realised that if adjust my canvas (in FCP) to 100% then the same issues are prevalent here also....

...a slight choppy look... not that clean, crisp look you'd expect from HD...?

I thought I was capturing on the right settings here?

Has anyone ever experienced this before??
 
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I'm no techie, and substantially drunk at this hour but have you looked into the compression of the video? There are different compression ty[pes for playback and for editing.
 
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also, keep in mind that PLAYBACK choppyness might just be that your computer cant PLAY that back.. burn it to DVD\Blueray, upload to vimeo or trascode to your favorite PLAYBACK codec and all might be good.. (yeah, and quicktime stinks for me on playback) the same videos will playback fine on other players.. but glitch to high heaven on QT..
 
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When editing on my mac I seem to have the opposite problem, my videos always look choppy and slow during editing, but smooth in quicktime. But this is due to playing back while editing. What I did is I made a random Youtube channel and if I really want to see what final content looks like I upload it in 1080p Youtube HD.
 
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