Film sound sync

Hey all,
I'm doing my first film and sound sync. I wanted to make sure I was doing things the right way, as I am handing off the project to another post facility once the sync is done. We are both using FCP, aand I've got a call into the editor to make sure I'm getting to him what he needs. However, I wanted to run it by the experts (and elitists ;.) here to make sure I was doing it correctly.
The film has been transfered to digibeta, and I have wav files with embedded timecode for audio. I'm assuming the embedded timecode, is location generated timecode in the portable dat or flash recorder that was used on-set. So the timecode doesn't match the timecode on the digi-beta. I will just use slate timecode to match to the timecode in audio file.
So, what I planned on doing was just digitizing the digi-beta, logging it by scene. Then importing in the wav files. Then I'll watch for the slates in the footage and sync them in the sequence with the audio. Simple as that.
Is there another way that I should be doing this? Is there a way to export the clips, so that I get a combined audio and video clip, that retains the timecode information of the digital beta?
Thanks for any insight.
Chris

well, we usually sync in telecine for expediency in order to get sync rushes (dailes) to set but in addition we always load the location audio into the system (usually as BWAV files) and sync ourselves. that way we keep control of all the audio media through the post process i.e. we copy the audio media onto a drive for the sound dept and when the time comes we give them reference OMFs and they can reconnect to the master audio tracks.
this is mainly due to the way we work with PAL in the UK (we telecine fast at 25fps) and also the fact that we usually telecine to Beta SP rather than Digibeta for offline purposes.
mind you the current film i'm working on here is NTSC (it began life in Canada) and we have all the original audio in the system.

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