Offline To Online Changes Field Dominance Settings?

Hi - I have an offline DV PAL sequence that I am taking online to 10-Bit Uncompressed PAL.
To my understanding PAL is Upper field dominance, and all my sequences and source files in the offline DV project are upper. However when I check the Uncompressed online project, many of the files (subclips especially) are set to Lower.
My question is this - since it's easy to change fd for clips by just right clicking in the browser, if I just set the incorrect clips' Field Dominance to Upper and make sure the shift fields filter is not enabled, can I be certain there will be no field dominance issues?
Maybe more importantly - what is the best way to determine if you have any field dominance issues? Is simply watching it on a monitor/television going to be obvious if something is wrong? Any way to check on the computer?
Thanks everybody,
Jason
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Field dominance depends on the format, not the standard (pal,ntsc).
DV is lower field dominant be it PAL or NTSC, and uncompressed is upper field dominant.
For true monitoring, you'll need to view your image through an external broadcast monitor... a CRT television should be suitable for monitoring field issues (i believe... i'm sure i'll be corrected if that's wrong).
The only obvious thing to look for is 'combing'... the lines (fields) that appear around the edges of a subject on the screen, especially when there is a lot of on-screen movement.
Just out of curiosity... why are you taking a DV sequence into 10-bit uncompressed? Doing graphics etc?
J

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