Odd Distortion When Zooming in on Video

Hi,
I'm having a problem that I've never experienced before. Granted, I haven't done this in awhile, but maybe someone can shed some light.
I'm working with some DV/NTSC video. I want to do a minor zoom in on the video, to clip off the edge. To do this, I click the "Motion" tab, and then, bump up the slider in "Scale". Now in the past, when I've done this, the video looks fine. But now, for reason, if I even touch this slider just a little, the video gets waves in it that only get worse the further I zoom in. I even see this distortion if I move the slide from 100% to 102%. Any thoughts?
And while I have a topic open, what the heck happened to the search engine on the discussion forums? Did Apple get rid of it?

I know that, I've blown up video many times and know how it "should" look. This is something that is completely out the ordinary. It is as if the video is getting giant "waves" from top to bottom. One might think this is an interlacing issue, but these waves are so big, I know it is not that.

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