Capture - sequence - output settings FC Studio

Hi. I have been using FCS2 a number of years with no probs shooting on a Canon XL1s in frame rate and when rendering in slow mo at 50% everything fine. (Shutter speed at 50)
My results have now changed, slow mo is seriously stepping even when images are not passing through the frame quickly.
When capturing frame rate I am using the following settings
Capture - sequence and output (via Compressor) Progressive.
When adding the captured clip to the time line FCS wants me to change it to bottom 1st interlaced with no obvious improvement in outcome for slow mo work
Have tried permutations of this in each step, interestingly the best result for using a slow motion sequence seems to be to change every step - capture - sequence - output - dvd authoring - all to bottom 1st, but this does seem to lower the over-all look and result in pic quality.
Am I doing something real dumb or is my system playing up?
cheers
Philip

Hi, Philip. Repost your question in a forum whose readers are more likely to be familiar with the software you're using — one of the ones listed under "Pro Applications: Video" on this page:
http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa?categoryID=1
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