Footage becomes distorted

I have a movie that plays fine with quicktime and looks great when brought into FCE 3.5.1. But after I export it and a few other movies edited together using the 'Quicktime Movie' option, a large area becomes distorted for a few seconds. I guess the best way to describe it is that the picture gets a bit wavy. There's a fair amount of movement in this area when this happens. This seems confusing to me as I'm not compressing the video or anything.
Does anybody know why this is happening and what I can do to eliminate it?

Michel-
The file I got was an uncompressed Quicktime .mov file of a TV commercial. It came from the editing house that handled the post production. That file is around 1 gigabyte in size. It's so big, I can't even play it on my machine with Quicktime, which they warned me would happen.
What I did was open the file in Quicktime and then export it using the DV/DVCPRO setting (NTSC). It is this file that has the distortion. Somehow when Quicktime compresses it, it added some distortion. Ugh.
I was able to fix the problem by simply importing the original uncompressed Quicktime .mov file into FCE and then using that. Strangely, the file plays fine once imported into FCE. I'm under the impression that unlike iMovie, FCE does not do any compression or conversion of files when importing.
Now here's the weird thing. When I exported it (along with some other movies) using the compressed version, the resulting Quicktime movie was about 800+ megabytes. Now when I export it using the original uncompressed version, the resulting Quicktime movie is still 800+ megabytes. I'm not using any compression when I export. Shouldn't the new file be much, much larger than the prior version? The compressed file was about 100 megabytes and the uncompressed I'm now using is about 1 gigabyte.
Does FCE employ some compression without me knowing it? Any input or knowledge about this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks/Merci Beaucoup

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Michel from Switzerland

Whoa, whoa whoa. Time out. Stop the bus. There's a LOT of misinformation going on here. First off...
Jim wrote:
>The original footage has 1.2 pixels. Coming from the "conversion will always introduce some measure of degradation" camp, they should be left without conversion if at all possible
Keep in mind, Jim, the original poster wrote, "media players such as Quicktime, Real Player, Windows Media Player, VLC Player and Youtube." So we're talking about Adobe Media Encoder. So conversion/rendering is taking place regardless of what pixel aspect he/she chooses.
Secondly, Brian wrote:
> Windows Media Player has always recognized the videos I export out at 1.2 aspect ratio as 16x9 format and play then fine.
Brian, this is typically not true for clips exported from Windows Media. (Perhaps you have tweaked some preferences to your Player, or perhaps your video drivers do something to correct this?) Even so, that's a rare instance only to your computer, and is not the proper advice to give.
Try this: export a 16x9 clip or 16x9 timeline via Adobe Media Encoder to a "for download" or streaming Windows Media format. You'll notice the available presets specify all of these types of formats at 1.0 PAR. Try it for any QT or Real Media or H.264 "Youtube" format-- it's all 1.0 PAR.
In addition, to test your theory: I forced the PAR to 1.2 and 1.333 for a few different clips I had. My Windows Media player (version 11) played them all incorrectly. As did Quicktime. Now, I agree that if you had an attached video monitor, it may look okay there. But not when viewing on a computer monitor.
Finally, keep in mind, you're creating a clip for someone else to download. Even if your own computer looks okay with Windows Media, the only way to *guarantee* it will display properly on everyone else's across the globe is to use square 1.0 pixels.
[Jeff steps down from his soap box.]

Footage becoming grainy when added to Timeline

Newbie here.
I recently switched cameras from a Sony handycam to a Nikon 5D100.
Looking at the footage in the viewer it's crisp and clear, but when I put it on the timeline it becomes blurry and grainy.
I converted the footage from a .mov to .mp4 thinking FCE didn't like the Nikon 5D100 format, but I'm having this issue with both formats.
Any suggestions?

The reason the video becomes blurry is that your source media (from the camera) does not match your FCE sequence settings (easy setup).   FCE is designed only for certain video codecs, specifically QuickTime/DV and QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec.
When you capture video directly from a camcorder, FCE can ingest DV, AVCHD and HDV video. DV video is directly imported into QT/DV clips; but in the high-def (AVCHD/HDV) capture process, FCE converts AVCHD and HDV video to QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec (QT/AIC).
If you don't capture directly from a camcorder you have to make sure your video clips conform to QT/DV or QT/AIC before using them in Final Cut Express.
The D5100 records video as H.264 but it's NOT AVCHD.   You need to convert these clips to QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec before importing them into FCE.    Use either MPEG Streamclip or Clipwrap to convert the video.
In FCE you need to use one of the AVCHD Easy Setups that matches how you shot the video in your DSLR, for example 1920x1080i30.   (Note that FCE does not support 24fps, and the only mode in which it supports progressive video is 720p)

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