FCP7 HV20 Video Capture to ProRes no longer can do smooth cam

Canon HV20 capture into FCP via ProRes. With FCP6 I could then use smooth cam. With FCP7 smooth cam will not work for new captures. Previous captures smooth cam does work. Old (Apple ProRes 422 29.97fps15.2MB/sec) New - everything is the same except 14.5MB/sec. So capturing is OK -- smooth cam will work on previous captures (and will work on HDV captures) just not new ProRes captures.

Take a look at your capture settings in Audio video settings. Highlight the preset and select edit. see if you can select "remove advanced pulldown"
It is available on the dvcProHD settings. not sure why you've chosen HQ instead of straight pro res. My understanding is HQ is for greater than 1920x1080.

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