My previously captured HDV footage glitches in FCPx

Hi ..
All my footage is captured in FCP7.
It's HDV 1080i50 .. shot with Sony s270's, Sony z1p's and Sony z7p's ..
The footage comes in .. but gliches every 3-5 seconds .. If I open the same clip in Qiucktime, it plays fine.
Has codec support gone bad?.
Without access to my thousands of hours of footage, this software is unusable.
Cheers,
Brett.

Hey Brett,
I have the same thing happening to me. HDV glitches every few seconds and if I export a glitchy clip from FCP X then that clip is glitchy too. If I look at the source footage in QT, it looks fine. I transcoded to ProRes in Compressor and brought it back in and it looks fine but that's not what I want to do. "Create optimized media" is grayed out so it won't let me background transcode to see what happens with that. Do you also have that problem? I read on another discussion that other people couldn't get HDV to transcode to ProRes and the thought is that it's because it works well with X. If that's the case, that's stupid that they don't give you an option, I think it's just a bug and I'm going to report both of these issues right now.
-David

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