Motion Artifacts or 3D like Problem in CS4!

Hello!
I have just noticed this strange footage in my timeline as the camera pans or the object in focus moves. The footage have got some edges or kind of shadows which follows behind like 3D footage without glasses or ghosting when the camera pans. This is not good for the eye when you watch it, and it just doesn't look right. Overall there is no smooth fluid motion in this footage where there is movement in the scene.
Original footage was recorded with a Canon XH A1 HDV 50i as I am in PAL region. I captured this footage using the camera's downconvert feature to SD. After capturing I purchased a Matrox RT X2 which I then used for multicam multiple monitors display. When I edited this footage with my client I didn't see this at all, and since it was a multicam project we had to cut between the cameras first then a second pass for refining and adding titles and transitions. All the editing was done as Matrox SD sequence. However when I played back the DVD thats when I noticed this strange motion artifacts in the footage. This is earlier in the year before the release of CS5.
I revisited the project because the client now wants more copies of the DVD. Although they didn't complain with this DVD I just thought I should correct the problem. The DVD is just 1hr 30 mins, so its not DVD compression here. This happens in the first half an hour of the DVD and then after that everything else plays smoothly and fluidly.Now the problem is that the footage in the Matrox sequence plays with the motion artifacts and it has a red line bar without any single effects. The othe footage does not have a red bar. But if I play it in the source monitor there is no such problem. This is happening on 3 out of the 8 tapes recorded on that event, and the tapes were recorded by one camera.
I have tried creating an Adobe PAL project but I cannot actually see as I haven't connected my preview monitor from my PC GPU! Still this SD footage have got a red line bar when in Adobe sequence. This includes even the footage that plays well.
Is this the matrox sequence causing this and if so how can I get rid of this problem without having to start editing from scratch!
SYSTEM
HP XW6600 Vista Biz 64
Xeon Quad 2.83Ghz
22GB RAM
GTX285 GPU (2GB)
PP CS4
RAID 0 for Source Files
Matrox RT X2
LG 22" monitor
Samsung 24" monitor

I wonder if this is a Field Reversal issue, as Matrox flips things around from regular DVD. That would be the first place that I would check.
Does this footage work in a non-Matrox Project?
Good luck,
Hunt

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