Exporting different FPS of one clip FCP and compressor dropping frames HELP

Hi all I'm posting this because I have no Idea what I'm doing wrong I'm trying to export my HD file from FCP as a quicktime H264 in 30fps and 24p of the same file. My client needs it in quicktime format but when I export in both FCP using quicktime conversion and compressor the fps playback is 12fps...8fps?. I've exported before not as quicktime with no problem. NTSC 29.97 version and PAL 25p of the same file in quicktime exported with no problem but the HD 1080 at 30fps and 24p wont work. Any advise or suggestions would be great....

Oh sorry, I've digitized my file from HD mini DV cam with FCP. I captured as HDV 30fps from the camera to FCP. I had no problems exporting with Apple HDV codec into different size and frame rates but trying to do the quicktime H264 at 30fps and 24p 1920x1080 is not working frames are dropping I do the same settings in compressor and still doesn't work.

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