Noise on captured footage

Footage that looks and sounds fine when I play it on a camera or playback deck shows visual and audio noise when I've captured it.

And the question is...???
Are you looking at it on a monitor when you play it out of the deck, camera, FCP?
FCP throws away more than half the picture info to assure proper throughput. you can only judge the quality of your footage with a proper monitor.
Is the footage from a low light situation? Did you have an audio engineer on set?
What sort of camera was it? DV or analog or digibeta or HDV or Hi Def? Was the audio 32K or 48K?
Not much to go on here!
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