Media Manage 10-Bit to DV

Question

I've just captured DigiBeta material via SDI to Uncompressed 10-Bit and storing on a 1 Ter G-Raid on FW800.
To do my editing a little speadier I thought to use Media Manager and copy the files, but recompressing them as DV media... editing from those and then reconnecting to the uncompressed files for final rendering.
300 Gig and 3 hrs later the files were transfered but when I dragged them into a DV timeline each one was flickery when viewed on my PAL monitor. Looked fine on the Cinema Display though.
The timeline is OK as I've got other DV material successfully on it and I've checked the settings on the browser to see if there are any differences between the media managed DV files and other DV files that I have just digitised in. All seems idendical.
At first I thought it was a field dominance thing so tried changing the settings for the errant files in the browser but that gave no joy.
I have made the pictures look smooth by de-interlacing with a Nattress G Fast De-Interlacer, (media field order - lower, select field - first,) but then of course everything needs rendering and that will be a pain for subsequent editing.
I'd even thought of rendering the whole of each file and reconnecting to each render file instead of the DV file. Then editing in the normal way and afterwards reconnecting again but to the uncompressed 10-Bit files.
Is this file recompression problem a "quirk" on media manager?
Is there a better way to do this... keeping TC information intact and hopefully being able to copy multiple files at a time?
Can I get rid of the flicker on the errant DV files a different way without using a filter that will incur a red render bar?
As an aside, my system is always rock solid and never crashes - but I've only edited with a DV timeline to date. My system has quit a couple of times over the last 2 days on this 10-Bit project and I'm wondering if its because I'm pushing the limits by using a FW800 G-Raid for media storage. (Project files saved to an internal extra drive and auto save files to the system drive.)
I've trashed / repaired and copied my system back from a cloned back-up, (and then repaired and run through Onyx,) so I'm sure that my Mac is healthy.
Oodles of thanks in advance for encouraging words of wisdom.
LEE.

Answer 1

Not sure what caused your problem, as I've done the same with 8 bit to DV with MM and it worked fine... so?
To really have a smooth offline/online experience though, down convert the 10 bit to offline RT... or another photo JPEG compression... it can look as good as DV and be smaller file size wise at the same time. I recall a 75% Compression quality setting looked really good, and the files ranged in size of course, but came out to about 30% smaller than had they been DV files, and looked better actually. (also maintained 4:2:2 color space that way)
OfflineRT is a 35?% or so photo JPEG compression, and would be 1/8th the size of a DV file of the same footage.
Jerry