Final Cut to DV Problems, Big Problems

I have used Final Cut for years now and I edit video captured from DV tape and then print back to DV tape. I have had no problems at all until recently. Here is what is happening. When I print it back to tape and when I view the results, frames are skipping and now today it made an audio screech sound and then the video froze for 15seconds and then started back again. If I take an unedited video to dv player, no problems. When I edit, the video does not look smooth. You can see as if frames are dropping all of a sudden. I have not changed any preferences at all. I am using a iMac 24 " with 4 gb of ram and a 500 gb hard drive running Leopard. Any ideas ? My DV machine is a new Sony HD machine.

problems continue. When I printed to tape and played back on the DV machine when there was a roll in of text or graphics, the tape glitched bad. this has never happened before and I am at a loss. I can export to Quicktime I guess and use broadband medium to keep the quality. This has to stay high quality because it goes to TV and to video venues for our churches. Any thoughts as to what is going on. It seems to be a print to video problem. I make sure that all my sequences are rendered. I capture from DV tape into FCP and then edit and add points and scriptures and then print to video. This just started 2 weeks ago.

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