Final Cut Playback

We have just installed Final Cut Studio 2 with a Kona LSe card.
We capture...good. We Edit to Tape...bad. The video does not sync up with the audio. The playback in the timeline is fine when viewing on the canvas. Watching the playback on a monitor you can see the video lagging behind the audio. We then Edit to Tape and sure enough, the playback of the BetaSP tape shows the video lagging behind the audio. Which set of settings should I be troubleshooting for this particular problem?
Thanks in advance for your help.
C.J.

monitor the audio and video from the Kona. Make a dub from any source to the SP machine with BITC. make sure the BITC matches the tc on the SP machine. Capture a segment of the BITC test tape and compare the TC FCP says is there with the BITC on the footage. Adjust the Frame offset in your capture settings. Make sure in the system prefs for your computer that "Sound" both input and output are selected as Kona or whatever it shows up as. If you are still getting a delay between audio and video and you are monitoring the Kona output on an NTSC monitor and monitoring Kona audio output on some speakers contact AJA tech support or your supplier

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