Panasonic HDC-SD100 & FCP - Unwanted movement lines in exported footage

Hello,
I'm relatively new to the technical aspects of the filming world. I'm hoping someone can help me understand the flaws of my latest footage and point me in the right direction towards solution. I filmed my friend's wedding using a camcorder Panasonic HDC-SD100 (Here's the Amazon link for product description http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-HDC-SD100-Definition-Camcorder-Optical/dp/B001BF RQA0).
Here's some footage I recently shot with the camera (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gBPxRepMSs). See how there are lines associated with movement? 1) can someone help me understand why that it happening? 2) is there a way to fix/minimize that problem? ..
I should also mention that since I did the editing in final cut pro and the camera is not compatible with Mac, that I had to upload the original footage to my PC, convert it to Mpeg-4, and then transfer it to my Mac for editing.
Finally, if anyone has recommendations for an HD camcorder of about the same size that is compatible with Mac, I would appreciate the info.
Thanks,
Jake

The lines you are seeing are the effects of interlacing - the camera's way of combining fields into one whole frame. These are normally especially noticeable in scenes with lots of movement. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do. If you're exporting for DVD you want it to output interlaced. If you're exporting for the web or for computer viewing you can try deinterlacing upon export, or if your camera has a way of shooting progressive footage you could try that and see how it looks.
For more information on interlacing check here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlacing
What makes you think the camera isn't compatible with Macs? From what I can see it looks like a standard AVCHD camcorder. It should be able to ingest easily using FCE or FCP's Log and Transfer command.

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