I am having some tuff times with MC. 

A video which is 720 X 486 looks choppy and crapy while editing on the Avid MC ( yes I did turn on max res with the green button). 

I have treid to import in many diferent ways and many diferent reslutions such as 640 X 480, 1280, 1440, etc, etc. I think it must be something very simple and stupid that I am not aware of.

After finishing on the MC and exporting everything exported look 100% perfect. I cant seem to edit on MC with a good image quality. Why ?? Whats wrong and how can I fix this ?

Unfortunatly I also have FCP (dont enjoy editing on it at all ) and for my surpise it is editing the same exact video with perfect image quality.

I hope someone can help. Editing on FCP is not something I would like doing with my client.

Have you tried playing it from your Mac desktop? How does it look on the desktop?  I am quessing you are importing your movie into Avid as a QT movie, correct?  720 x 486 is perfect non-square NTSC frame dimension.  You say the movie was created on an Avid.  What version?  What video resolution are you importing the movie at?  Suggest 2:1 not 2:1s

Hope these random thoughts help

Yes it plays on the desktop perfectly with Quicktime, VLC or whatever software I choose.

The file is a QT movie that is 720 X 486.

It was not created on the Avid. I am importing this movie file into Avid, editing the movie and exporting the sequence to QT.

The finished QT is 100% perfect after export BUT I cannot edit on the Avid with good image quality, it looks choppy.

I am importng on your suggested 2:1. I tried to import in 1:1 and most other res on the menu.

Trendhouse,

You haven't given too much detail about your system or how how you are monitoring the video. Nor how the QT was originally created (codec etc).

But i am guessing that the "choppy" issues you are having are related to those in this post.

http://community.avid.com/forums/t/74412.aspx

I have an analogue Mojo and when i look at downconverted HD (v/cam etc) images via Mojo they are perfect (as perfect as they can be composite...). But on full screen view on either my Macbook or my PC monitors there is visible "choppiness" when HD or SD. This is a little hard to define perfectly and choppiness and tearing isn't quite right for me. It's more like individual lines of video are pulled/delayed in playback.

The first time i became aware of this i found that after i convinced myself there wasn't a problem with the actual media, convincing the client all would be fine wasn't a problem either. Because essentially the actual image quality is still very good.

BUT this is a problem that needs to be addressed. I am still on 3.1.2. I wonder has this improved on 4?

Neil

I am using screen capturing software called Screen Mimic. 

The file was exported to QT with this software uncompressed.

Note: Screen captured pictures also looks terrible even when passed through photoshop.
Movie created with LiveType is also choppy or fuzzy.

Also note: Standard pictures (not grafic images ) imported into MC looks great and movies also looks great. 

I think its something very simple to solve this issue and it looks like my problemas are with QT movies containing grafics ?