1-second glitches in compressor output

Hello,
I have been scanning this forum, which is chock-full of compressor gripes. I can't tell for sure, but don't see my particular problem here.
I have footage (all 60i) which, when encoded (1pass VBR) generally looks ok - but there are sections, including sections in which the scene is very still - NOT panning - in which a jump, about-once-per-second glitch appears. This happens over and over, in one case for 10s or so, and then goes away again. So it * isn't always there * isn't necessarily associated with panning or significant movement in the frame.
I would feel better if it was always there, or only during significant movement in the frame.
Do I need a constant bit rate? I have read to avoid 2-pass VBR. Any suggestions? This did not happen (a common statement..) in older versions of compressor, and I didn't notice it until upgrading to FCStudio and a powermac dual core 2.3, so it is relatively recent - not just the change to compressor v2. I keep wondering if a new option has been added, and I don't know to shut it off.
In the hope that someone else finds this a trivial and previously solved problem - I'm posting and hoping.
Thanks for your time.
Brian
Dual-core 2.3 Mac OS X (10.4.8) DVX camera, FC Studio

Try exporting the movie as uncompressed 8 bit or 10 bit and then encode that (this is HDV 1080/60i?) Take a look here wheere Mikey M. has some real good details as to Compressor settings
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2679204&#2679204

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