Hi folks.

For anyone who was wondering, I've solved this one.

I posted a few days ago with the problem that when opening a DV stream directly, it appears chunky and rough. But, exporting to any non-interlaced format restored it to full quality. But, I didn't want to export to M-JPEGA every time I wanted to encode, since the quality was there somewhere. Unfortunately, Mediapipe saw it as chunky and raw.

Once the movie is open in Quicktime player, select 'Get movie properties', select 'video track' and 'high quality'. Check both the boxes 'high quality enabled' and 'single field'.

Here's the neat part: if you save simply as a reference movie without exporting the whole thing (useful for large chunks of video), mediapipe will encode at high quality. Apparently the default is to view (this goes for Mediapipe as well at QT player) the movie at lower quality to get smoother motion.

Jeremy