Conforming HDV from SD FCP Project

Hi there
Having a problem today using a CMX 3600 EDL exported from a DV Pal project to conform footage at its original HDV res.
Basically the clips begin capturing, but don't stop at the out point.
The same EDL works fine at SD.
Have also tried using Media Manager to create an offline project and recapturing that way, but have the same problem.
Using a Sony Z1 as a deck - am I using the wrong device control settings or something?
Any thoughts?
Cheers
G5

Your FCP sequence settings need to match the output
from motion. Click on the playhead in FCP then press
(apple+0)thats a zero. The match your sequence
settings.
This is most likely due to the software update.
Like I said, this process of "down-resing" from an HDV project to an SD project was working flawlessly before I updated the software. FCP, to my knowledge, can take an HDV project from Motion and conform it into whatever the sequence settings are. As long as it's the correct aspect ratio which in this case is 16:9 and the project is a higher resolution, of course.
My temporary solution was to export from Motion with Animation compression with the current output settings. This will give it a 4:3 aspect ratio. Then, open the movie and in the properties check off "preserve aspect ratio" and change the scaled size from 1440 x 1080 to 1920 x 1080. This will make it 16:9. Import into FCP and "viola"!
It's just stressful to find out that a process that was working doesn't work anymore.

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