23.98 Panasonic DVX-100a

So I shot an entire season of football on a Panasonic DVX-100a in 24Pa. During halftime I would turn the camera off to conserve battery. Upon capturing those clips I would get a time code break every time where the camera was turned off, giving me two separate clips. On the last couple games of the season the second half or the NAME-1 clip's audio would be off and continue drift off in weird intervals. Upon syncing that nightmare up did I realize that there was another issue related to exporting and playback. When I would export the edited tracks to a QT Movie file, (keeping the settings at default) the footage in the QT movie was different than that of what played back from the timeline. Rather than just showing the edited plays from the timeline it would show footage from the same game, just show parts that were edited out from the raw source. All of the obviously things like IN & OUT points, markers were checked (none set btw) to insure nothing was creating a mixup. My solution around this was to take the playback from the timeline dump it to tape and re-digitize to insure proper edited footage. Not sure where the mix up went. Any ideas??? I've used the camera since then and was successful with a proper edit. I've since stopped using that camera to prevent any future issues.

So we take it that it's a bug which strenghens the
usual warning: never update your software in the
middle of a big project. Acually the more I look at
FCP 6, the more I wonder if it's worth upgrading...
I have another six months to go on this project, and I love smoothcam, but still....
I'm going to try 6.0.1. If I don't get any satisfaction with that, I am going to go back to 5.1.4, which was working fine. Actually, FCP 6 solved what for me was a huge problem with version 5.1, which involved management of media and clips. Previous to version 6, if I moved a sequence from one nested bin to another one nested in a different bin, FCP silently and without any warning broke ALL links to the master clips in that sequence. FCP 6 has fixed this problem. But created others.....
I will report back to this thread after I try 6.0.1.

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