Exported mov isn't the same as the timeline.

Hi,
I've got Final Cut Express 4 and I've exported a 12 minuted edited project onto mov., DIVX and AVI and each one contains the same difference to what's on the time-line - how is that even possible. I have a static shot that wasn't enough to last so I looped it three times, superimposed a caption over it and and it fits and works. I play it back on the time-line and it works just the way I want it. Then I export it and the shot is different!! There are no spare video tracks - I deleted any that weren't being used - so it's not something I just missed - it physically isn't on the time-line, yet it's a different shot on the exports!! I can't see how this is possible.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
PupsterDad

Hi Al,
Thank you - it is weird isn't it? I mark an in at the start of the project time-line and an out at the end then hit export and, so that everyone I'm sending it to can read it I first export it as a Quicktime movie, then again as a DIVX then finally as an AVI file. Each version is saved but contains 3 shots from the same rushes roll as the shot I've cut in (and can see when I play it on my computer) on the time line. I had trouble wit sync when I was digitising that roll originally so there's something wrong in the way the computer's reading the tape but I followed your advice to someone else and re-imported the material - this time just about 30 seconds on either side of the shot I wanted (so that the shots that are coming up on the exports weren't even imported this time) and I gave it a different name. No luck. Then I marked an in and out on the steadiest part of the re-imported shot, used the 'modify' to make it a freezeframe, put it on the time-line, superimposed the caption I needed and got exactly the same result: great on the time-line but shots from the rushes on the exports. I've never seen anything like this - have you?
PupsterDad.
PS. I've seen your work on the forum and I take my hat off to you - you're The Man !

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