Exporting audio for film project

hi all
i am doing a over dub for are uni film in stp, have use a video file as reference which had no audio on it. however when i have finish the over dub and export the audio as a mixdown at samp rate 48hz because it is going back into a avid project the video and audio do not sync up with each other. the video file that i have us for reference is a copy of the avid project time line. hope some one can help me new to using stp.

hi all
did not explain very well in above question, had to do an entire over dub for a film that we had edited in avid. to make the process quicker i decided to do the over dub using sound track pro. i placed a copy of the film that had being edit in avid as a copy of the time line in stp as a reference . competed the over dub and exported it as a wave audio file, with the setting of 48khz sample rate 16 bit rate. However when i place it back into the avid project it was totally out of snyc.have tried it in different software e.g. final cut, cubase but it is all ways goes out of snyc. please help as i am new to stp and need to get project handed in
thanks
dillboy

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