FCP X not image stabilize HDV footage

I have a Imac 27 inch 11,1, I5.
My problem; after successfully imported HDV clips. I placed it on the timeline and selected analyze and fix "image stabilized". After the back ground rendering circle went from blue to green, and the image seemed slight zoomed in, as expected in the viewer. When I play it, I noticed no IS at all.
I tried adjusting the IS controls via inspector. Still no IS, the image would zoomed in a bit more or less based on what I did in the inspector. But no IS.
Anyone with this problem??
I'd read elsewhere online that someone said that FCPX does not IS with interlaced clips and his work around was to changed his field dominance from "Upper" - HDV to "0" then FCPX would do IS.
Is this true?? If so, how silly is that...

You are right, there is the suspicion that image stabilization is broken for interlaced media. However, I've also seen reports that you can get it working for interlaced clips, as long as you don't do any analysis while importing, and only do the analysis inside the timeline. But it sounds like that's what you did.
Hopefully this is a bug that Apple will fix.

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