Captured 1080i 50 material stutters

Hi,
If anyone can answer this it would be greatly appreciated. My captured material plays back with a slight stutter and I can't figure out why.
I have a tape that was shot on the Sony Z1U camera at 1080i 50.(HDV material on a dvcam tape). I am capturing the footage to the FCP via firewire and a Sony HVR-M15U deck.
My audio/video settings are as follows:
Sequence preset hdv-1080i50
Capture preset hdv
Device control preset Sony HDV 1080i50 Firewire
Video Playback-None
Audio Playback-Default
Again, any help would be appreciated.
Dave

I haven't dealt with PAL footage much, so I'm not sure how much help I'll be, but to me it still seems like a field issue (possibly interpolation instead of a dominance issue). Maybe switch things between Upper, Lower and None just to check. Are you just noticing this when viewing the clips in the sequence or also when the clips are loaded in the viewer? If also in the viewer, be sure to try changing the field order o the clip itself, too.

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