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Scenes with a lot of red are pixelated and blocky

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I'm pretty pleased with the video quality of my edits, but for some reason scenes where there is a lot of red present (think the scene in TPM where they're deciding to go to Tatooine, aboard the queen's ship) are very blocky. I did some searches, and apparently there's a common problem with the color red somehow related to interlaced images, but this shows up even when I play the disc on my progressive player. Is this a common pitfall when converting mpeg2 files to DV? Any help is much appreciated.
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Yes. DV hates red. I'll let someone else give the details.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

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<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

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Thanks. That's what I get for going into this half-informed with a full head of steam. I went back into Cinematize and imported a test section as 4:2:2 uncompressed and it looked a hell of a lot better. I was following someone else's 'template' so to speak when I imported things as DV footage. If the uncompressed video isn't prohibitive in terms of space, I'll probably have to go back, locate the in and out points of my original imports, and replace the source files.