Exporting variable speed shots looks terrible

I have a project shot with a Canon 7D. Made all the shots AppleProRes 422 and edited that.
When exporting (Cureent settings)2-3 shots that I use variable speed look like ****. They seem to become interlaced and different fields appear. There is no problem with other shots that are speeded up but without any smoothing at beginning or end.
whats even more puzzling is that there are some shots that I used variable speed that look just fine, no problem at all!
how can I address an issue of that sort?
thank you
how can anyone taggle that sort of issues

The usual answer is to render them externally, export them, reimport them into the timeline.
When you export from the timeline, new media is created, sometimes referencing the original files, not the rendered media from your timeline. Guessing there is something odd about those shots, a change of settings on your Canon or during the transcode to to PR422, regardless of how unlikely that may seem to you.
Try opening a new, empty sequence. Make sure the sequence is set properly. Go back to your problem sequence, select all, copy, ad paste into the new empty timeline. Render.
Suggest you take one of these shots and experiment with it all by itself. Try using Motion's speed controls. Render the movie, import that back into FCP.
bogiesan

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