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I have a timeline with a sequence of photos in it. The photos appear instantly, and then fade out to black over about 1/3 second (using the compositing opacity).
The problem I'm having is that I just exported the master file and watched it, and when the photos fade out, I see horizontal banding that shouldn't be there. I'm inserting some screen captures of the playback of the video that shows what I see as the photo fades to black. The screen captures just show a portion of the screen, but the problem occurs across the screen. It is very noticeable as the video plays, and it occurs as each photo fades away.
What is causing this? If I go to the timeline and advance frame by frame as the photo fades away, I don't see any of this banding in the viewer. There the photos all fade away evenly as they should with no banding.
Thank you for any information/advice.

Those screen captures that show the banding are from the exported master, which I exported in ProRes 422, and played back in Quicktime Player.
If I watch the video play back in the viewer inside FCPX, I do not see the banding at all. Given that, changing the playback preference from Better Performance to High Quality isn't necessary or advisable, is it?
The still images are different sizes (because I cropped them, I guess). They are all around 550 x 825 or so. They look good in the video (I don't see pixelization like I'd expect to if they were too small).
I'm not sure I understand what you're suggesting when you say "set it up with transiton in progressive and see if it works better." Are you saying to change the timeline to progressive? Is that possible at this point? As far as the transitions go, I could try a transition with each, but the instant each photo pops into view is aligned with the sound of a camera shutter, so I don't want to screw that up.
As far as the camera goes, I think the advice I found early on for my HF10s was to shoot in 1080 60i (I guess because the HF10s don't have 1080 60p) and I didn't even know that it's possible to work in a progressive project. I really don't have any idea why that might be better, but I'd like to know. If it is better, I definitely want to do it the best way.

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