IMovie 11 to FCP Pro X: cure for single-field?

I've got a lengthy home movie (sourced from a DV tape) that I've edited in iMovie 11. Unfortunately, I've been stuck with the single-field processing issue where the output is effectively at half resolution. Now that I can import this movie into FCP Pro X, I'm wondering whether that will cure this single-field problem, if I then continue editing in FCP and output it from there? Or will I need to scrap the project, start from scratch, and re-import from the camcorder into FCP directly?

"Some of the procedures I've seen before changed all of the dates to the day of conversion and I need to save the original info."
Very good question.
I've been testing with tapes that have analog video copied to them so the DV time/date is meaningless. They only show the date I copied them from VHS to DV. When I'm sorting to clips to folders I have to remember is this Japan 1989 or 1991? Then name the TO folder based upon my memory. And of course I don't need the DV timecode in iMovie when I edit.
You need the Time and Date information from the camera to be used to date the folder when the video is imported into iMovie. Correct?
I will test with some video shot with the DV camera.
PS: Here is a description of how CatDV figures out how to divide a long movie into "clips."
CatDV uses two methods to detect scene changes.
It detects the start and end of each scene or shot in a DV movie using the digital date and time information recorded to tape by DV and Digital8 camcorders. As a result it is normally 100% frame accurate in the scenes it identifies in captured footage. On rendered footage and analog material, on the other hand, this extra information is missing and so CatDV won't be able to detect any scene changes using the DV method.
CatDV also has the ability to compare the actual visual content of successive frames to detect scene changes. This allows you to import and log footage captured from an analog capture card for example. By its nature this method is not foolproof, however, and is liable to detect false changes when there is rapid movement within a scene, and to miss changes, for example if the camera is held on a tripod between shots and there is very little change between them, or if you have applied a fade or dissolve between two clips. It is also slow and computationally intensive, and so whenever you have the choice you should prefer to use the DV-based detection on original footage.
You can control which detection algorithm(s) are used when importing movies in the Preferences dialog.

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