Every clip and timeline is off-sync!

All my footage and timelines have slipped off sync about 5 frames. When opened in quicktime, everthing is normal again. What could possibly be wrong!

Could you clarify a little: are you saying that when you export from that timeline to a QT movie, it is perfectly in sync, or are you talking about a previous export before the problem occurred?

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By strobing, I mean there's only about 1 ever 10 frames playing back for me. Everything is rendered and the comp settings match the clip settings. It's not constant though, but the strobing is triggered at certain points on the timeline and effect a few clips after that (10 seconds or so at a time), and then when the next clip is displayed on the timeline the strobbing stopps and is reset back to normal playback... until another random clip is encountered by the playback head to which then the process repeats. Also, when strobbing is happening and I move the playhead back a few seconds, or pause & play, or even forward a little on the same strobbing clip (basically when i inturrupt the playback process) the strobbing STOPS! I can watch the same footage that was strobing without it strobing any longer until I move back the playhead far enough and try again, then the strobing is triggered again. I hope this all makes sense, it's very picular and I've seen or heard of nothing like it in my 4 years of editing in FCP7.

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Yes I did, and it still is. In fact I scrapped the entire project, started a new one and 3 clips in it's doing it again. Really All I'm left with is reinstalling the software which I did not want to do. In the mean time I've even upgraded from 4gb's of RAM to 16. I'd cut in FCP 7, but that program can't cut the MTS with out transcoding like CS6 can so I may be stuck with glitchy playback when is more than insufferable while trying to cut.

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You're in LA, so you're on NTSC.
It should work on short sections, BUT, every minute (..because NTSC's real frame rate is 29.97 frames-per-sec..) you have to disregard a couple of frames of video to keep it in sync with the audio!
Let's see if I can find a table to explain it..
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In other words, at the end of each minute, ignore the next minute's frame numbers 00:00 and 00:01, so after 00:59:29 and 01:59:29, etc, jump straight to 02: (i.e; the next minute) 00:02. But not on the tenth minute.
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Every clip I import in Final cut pro 6.0 loses its first and last frame.
The clips I import are in photoJpeg / 24p (verified with the -get info- of Quicktime Pro), but once in FCP they are marked as 23.98 ?!?!
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