Edits in stap files shift in FCP sequence

I edited some outtakes from a voice over in STP and saved .stap files. These I dragged into a FCP sequence (422) with 48khz 16 bit audio.
The result was as if I had chopped out the wrong parts: rather than shortening a long silence, the first word of the following sentence was missing!
My work-around has been to convert the .stap files to .wav -- but I'm wondering how this happened?

OK -- the wavs from the session were 41kHz, I guess that must be it

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Hi,
I have heard a few various ways to go about onlining a FCP sequence, I was wondering if someone who's fluid in this workflow could explain the follwing sequence:
I've captured all my footage using a DV codec, and have since edited 2 hours to 4 minutes. I want to online that 4 min sequence to Uncompressed 10 bit...what is the proper way to go about onlining just those four minutes and not all of my footage...media manager?
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Check if your problem files are set to Image Mode RGB and 8 Bits/ Channel. That's what you want.
!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/ImageModeRGB_8BitsChannel.jpg!
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!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/MPEG_StreamclipExport.jpg!
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!http://www.spotsbeforeyoureyes.com/MPEGStreamClipDV.jpg!
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editing sound on a short film. sent FCP sequence to sweeten the dialog and add effects, according to the timeline it is the same length as sequence length in
FCP, but when exporting from STP to FCP to complete movie, the sound ends up being about 10 frames longer than the video and starts in sync and falls out of sync over the duration of the film.
Have tried changing preference settings in STP, exported about 5 ways to breakfast and all have same result.
Anyone have a solution to this problem?
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Holly

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No audio for stap files...

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I am very frustrated and in a bind for time. Anybody seen this before? Could it be the latest qt update causing this? Help!!!
Thanks,
Mark

Mark,
O.K. originally I thought you were moving from multitrack to waveform permanently in which case you would want to use AIFF format. Now I understand that you're using the multitrack over again, and I think this is what you're missing.
You want to edit destructively not the default non-destructive; option use the other one (saving overwrites original file). See if that works, because there should also be the same effect with a non-destructive file, just as you said you used to do. It seems logical that at a certain point STP may not be able to process a larger amount of information immeadiately.
However that's just my guess, it may not be so. It may be that STP has become corrupted on your system and you need to reinstall. What version are you using? It could also be do to that, a specific upgrade like v1.1. So if using the other edit option doesn't work try reinstalling
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No, copying the whole Project and Event is just too much of a waste of time.
Do this, in the Browser, select the audio file you need to take to Audacity. Export it as a Master File, and in the Settings section of the Share window, set Format to Audio Only. Set Audio File Format to AIFF. Set Open With to "Other" and select Audacity. Then pick your Desktop as the location to save the file.
In Audacity, do whatever it is you want and save it.
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Premiere and Media Encoder will will no longer export my edit to any file format.

This is on a Windows 8.1 PC.
The edit exported fine until I made one big mistake.
I created a Nested Edit to make a quick alteration.
Since then the following is now the case and I cannot go back to an earlier edit to fix this.
Premiere and Media Encoder will will no longer export my edit to any file format. Using either the Export Option or Media Encoder. Get a dialog that says "Unknown Error Compiling Movie"
There is nothing wrong with my footage. This edit worked fine and I export through Media Encoder many times until I made a Nested Edit within the Premiere Project.
I have tried all sorts of searches on the net for a fix to this but nothing seems to be current or indeed works.
Any help would be appreciated as this is a show stopper.

Thanks for the reply Mark, appreciated.
I have found a work around but it still leaves a long term issue for Adobe to fix.
As to your first solution:
1). The nested edit is already in its own timeline panel. It will not export or encode via media encoder. This is the problem.
2). I will try the KEM roll feature but I have a work around see following.
3). No I do not have a nested edit within a nested edit.
I did a lot of research on the net on this issue as it happened to a colleague of mine on his machine about two weeks ago. It took me six hours to get a fix and in his case there were six video clip that had read errors. When I overwrote those clips from the original backup master it fixed the problem. However I was never able to use Media Encoder again to export his project without it failing. I could only use the Export feature. Again he had used a nested edit in his project.
I my case I do not have any nested edits within a nested edit. All I did was drag my main edit onto the New Sequence icon at the bottom of the Project Bin. This of course created a nested edit in a new Timeline Panel which is what I wanted. I then slid the entire nested edit to the right in the timeline by two seconds as all a wanted to do was add two seconds of black at the head of the edit. That was it. From that point of creating the nested edit Media Encoder and the Export option failed every time with the fore mentioned error.
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As a test I loaded the old corrupt edit project back up and deleted the nested edit sequence completely and re-saved it. This had no effect and did not fix the problem. This particular project file will no longer export directly or via media encoder at all no matter what I do.
This seems pretty serious to me. I worked on this edit for a whole month without issue, encoding out roughs as a went without any issue, it was only yesterday after I made the nested edit that the project file is now useless as it will not encode out at all. Yes I have a work around and was able to salvage my project and get it rendered in time for my deadline but the fact I have a partially working Project that Media Encoder will not touch does not instill me with confidence for long term use of Premiere Pro if this is going to happen again.
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I've taken some work home from the macs at work, but can't open it on my PC.
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I've tried converting them into almost everything, and they often play (as .avi for example in the newest QT, WMP, Adobe Premiere and AE), but they increase A LOT in size and decrease A LOT in quality.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8159317&#8159317
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No one in the whole world seems to have an answer...
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In the Sequence Preset Editor, check the Anamorphic 16:9 box
Rename this Sequence Preset to DV-NTSC 48 kHz - 23.98 Anamorphic and click OK
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Enter a name and description, then click OK
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If all you are doing is cutting, then you probably will not be recompressing. An easy way to tell is how long it takes to export. It it looks like it will take a long time, then it is probably conforming and recompressing the video. That is bad. But it might be possible to cut out a portion, and save as a self-contained movie rather quickly.
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