Problem Lines on Quicktime Export File

Hi,
I'm trying to output a file from Final Cut Pro to Quicktime and I have gotten some strange results.
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/attachment.php?attachmentid=2096&d=1170989259
FILE>EXPORT>QUICKTIME CONVERSION>VIDEO SETTINGS
Compression Type: Motion JPEG B
Quality: Best
SOUND SETTING (I left as default)
The attached clip is done with Compression Type H.264 and Quality Low so that I could get the file size small enough to post it here. The strange results that I get with the H.264 file are the same as Motion JPEG B. Changing the quality setting results in the same problems. I also tried Sorenson Video and MPEG-4 Video - which gave the same result as the others. I did try the DV/DVCPRO - NTSC compression which gave me a file without problems. I would however prefer that it be a Motion JPEG B type of file. The short example clip is part of a longer scene of about 1 minute that has been sped up 1600%.
I am using:
QuickTime™ Version 7.1.3,
Final Cut Pro 5.0.4
Mac OS X 10.4.8
1.67 Ghz PowerPC G4
1GB DDR SDRAM
250 GB Lacie external drive (20GB free)
Thanks for any advice!
Tim

Use google and explore for several hours the topic of interlaced video. It's a truly complex issue and neither of you have provided enough information for us to do much more than ask you to learn more about video basics so you can post a question we can answer directly.
Know ahead of time that acquisition formats can be interlaced or progressive. Your editing format can be either. Your release format can be either. And the display or video monitor upon which you are viewing any of the above can be either interlaced or progressive. And sometimes it doesn't matter one way or the other because interlacing is actually a good thing, most of the time, because it smooths out horizontal movement relative to temporal motion.
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