AVID HDV to Quicktime for FCP

I have a client who's shot and edited in HDV on an AVID (not sure which version but I believe it's newer). He's now trying to export a quicktime so we can load it into Final Cut to export to HDCam through our AJA Kona card.
He's used the AVID DNxHD Codec to export the files. I've imported the files into Final Cut and during the render on a timeline to an AJA codec, I am always getting "General Error". I tried exporting the same files straight from Quicktime to an Uncompressed 8-bit codec but the files fail there as well.
He exported the files to his local hard drive and then copied them to a firewire drive. I've copied the files to my local disk before trying to render or export.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Should he be using a different codec during the export? Could the actual files be the problem? Thanks for any help.

Gotta recapture. You can't just take files from another editing platform and expect them to work perfectly fine in another. While the Avid codecs MIGHT work, often they don't...like now. So if you offline with Avid and online and output on FCP, you need to export the OMF from the Avid, then use Automatic Duck Pro Importer to import that OMF into FCP, then recapture from the source tapes.
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