Canon XL2 & Audio/Video Settings

HELP! I have looked some of the previous threads on this issue and tried changing settings, but am still having a mismatch between what voices are saying and lips moving after I capture and then play in canvas.
I shot at 16x9, 24p 2:3.
What are the best audio/video settings to use to be able to capture/edit and ultimately export to DVD while preventing this problem???
I have latest version of final cut pro.

Usually audio desyncronization (is this a word?) comes from the audio being recorded at 32khz and FCP looking for 48khz files. When you play back, FCP is madly trying to fix the missing 16khz and doing a bad job of it. the Audio often just wanders off into it's own world.
Does it start in sync and drift or is it off the whole time?
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