image quality on FC express.

I have been capturing and editing some HD video I filmed with a Canon HV40 camera and I am having problems with the image quality. I filmed 24f for most of the footage and when I capture it and watch on the viewer the quality is fine, but when I edit it and watch my progress in the sequence, the image looks streaky, any suggestions?

screenshots would help....streaky is kinda vague

I think you're probably looking at a lorez preview. Do you see a green bar above the video timeline? Until you reconform it that's what you'll see. The viewer is the RAW footage and doesn't need rendering.

What is reconforming? Just Burning it to DVD or converting it to another format? Sorry about the screen shot I'll try to get one up

Here it is

That may be hard to see but its the biggest size I could get in

Does your footage look fine if you export a quicktime of the sequence? Does your sequence preset match your footage format? In a new timeline edit in a clip and final cut should ask if you want to convert the sequence to match the footage. Click yes and is the problem still there during playback?

It stays bad when I export to quicktime. I'll try what you told me, thanks.

Not sure what your exact issues are, but I had a fuzzy issue once after post production. I "deinterlaced" my entire video once I finished, and it worked good for me. Again, not sure if it's related to your issue, but it doesn't hurt to try. I believe the deinterlace is under the video filters tab. Good luck.

That might help since most computer monitors don't display interlaced video properly.

thanks for all the help, fixed it