FCPX 10.0.6 media import issue with P2 material. Please Help!

**update**

After a few more tests I am noticing that FCPX might be creating optimized media of these DVCPRO HD clips. When importing that option seems to be greyed out for me and I was under the impression that Final Cut

did not need to create optimized media. When I right click the media in the event browser and choose reveal in finder it is taking me to .mov files in the event folder. When I play these .mov clips they are choppy and interlaced.

How do I stop Final Cut from creating these clips? Or does it need to for some reason?

Here is a screen of the problem. Again, this was never an issue with 10.0.5.

The play back is actually fine, until Final Cut wraps the clip.

Also this was not happeneing on 10.0.5. I have also been editing this

type of footage for years as well with no problems.

As for events and projects, they are stored in the events and projects folder

in the movies folder. Which seems to be the default location for FCPX.

Once they have been established I will move the event/project to my

external firewire 800 Lacie Drive. using the Move event/project menu option.

This import interlacing choppiness only started happening with 10.0.6

I have a copy of 10.0.5 as well and when I load that program everything imports

perfectly. I did it this morning in fact.

I then loaded 10.0.6 and the above problem that I talked about (with screen shot)

persisted.

This really seems to be a 10.0.6 problem.

If you are saying you able to import DVCPRO HD 1080 24pa into FCPX 10.0.6 without

these problems that's encouraging. At least I know it can be done.

iMac is Mid 2011

2TB internal

Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB

OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2

**update number 2**

Clean install of Mountain Lion

Fresh Install of FCPX 10.0.6

Same issue.

This version of FCPX is definitely doing something new to this footage

that it wasn't doing in the last version.

I have a question as well for anyone. When the footage is first imported

and while the HUD is saying that it's "importing", The media plays great in the timeline.

My question is..is FCPX playing the original .mxf file at this point?

Because once the HUD says that it's done importing, things go haywire.

That's when it seems to be playing it's quicktime wrapped file. This leads me to

believe that this wrapper is messing things up.

BenB if you are able to import footage shot on an HVX200 @ 1080 24pa or 24p and import

this footage into 10.0.6 and have it play normally I would be amazed.

I also can't believe this is only happening to me.

This is driving me nuts.

This footage imports perfectly and plays perfectly in Premiere Pro CS 5 and FCPX 10.0.5

I have spent literally hours talking to the final cut pro people. They assured me that they know about this issue and are working on it. That was before 10.0.7 came out. Still no fix. Guess they're not working on it THAT hard. I won't be holding my breath. I've been using Adobe Premiere lately when I need to work with DVCPRO material. I'll even export to ProRes and import back into FCPX so I can use my plugins. What a joke.

Ok, well I am pleased to anounce that the most recent update to FCPX (10.0.9) seems to fix this weird interlacing issue with DVCPRO HD footage. I honestly can't believe it took this long to fix something that THEY broke, it blows my mind a little bit.

The only thing that I did was update FCPX to 10.0.9 this fixed the import issue for all my DVCPRO footage.

I actually never had an issue where the audio was completely absent, for me the audio was just hopelessy out of sync. As well all the footage coming in at 24p was interelaced. When I brought it in at 30p it was all fine like you say. So check your version, if you're not at 10.0.9 then update. If it still doesn't work after that, I'm not sure what advice I can give.