Exporting quicktime

Hello all
I am a camera guy pretending to be an editor, hopefully you will forgive my ignorance and help me out.
I have captured my footage from my PANASONIC HDX-900 DVCPRO as DVCPRO HD 720p24 48kHz.
I need to created dailies with time code burn. I was able to add time-code to the captured clips using the time-code reader filter.
The problem is that when I export these files they have a still of the first frame of video and all of the audio. (no moving video)
What am I doing wrong. Do I need to render first? Can I render to DVD quality to save time?
The dvd is just for reference quality is not an issue but it must have the time-code and audio.
Thanks
Andrew

Hey Thanks for the info but I have the dreaded "unable to connect to background process" error in compressor and I am looking for a way around the problem.
Any ideas?
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