Length of AIFF changing?!

This is quite complicated so before you read on, let me thank you for taking the time to help me.
I'm currently recording in 2 places.
ONE - a high end studio using PRO TOOLS.
TWO - my home studio using a combination of gear.
Due to latency issues, I've decided to record at my home studio using a VS-1824 Roland HD recorder. It's got great pre-amps and is very comfortable to record with.
Once I've got the tracks done on my Roland, I want to be able to send AIFF files to my engineer over the net. I've tried the obvious - digital interface (FAST TRACK PRO) into GARAGEBAND and Save To Disk. Both studios are set to 48k and 24bit.
I did this and sent in one AIFF file. It sounded fine to me but when he imported it into PRO TOOLS, the file that I sent him was a different length than the other tracks already in the mix. It syncs in the beginning but is off by 0.5ms by 2 minutes into the song!
Later in the high-end studio, we tried a direct digital link (OPTICAL) from the VS to PRO TOOLS and it works fine. That means that there is no problem with the VS, right? I even tried some other aps like AUDACITY but we had the same issue. It's got to be the sync clock in the MacBook that is off.
Anyway to work around this? All I need are clean AIFF files.
Any help would be appreciated!

The time problem is probably due to the A/D back to D/A conversion.
Your workflow is not the best way to make quality audio. Not only are you doing Analog/Digital your changing bitrates all before it's getting to pro tools.
You could just send a disk from the VS to the studio. Or record on the Mac, monitoring externally (through interface) will eliminate any latency. Or write track to cd in the vs and rip track to mac and send.

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I should mention, too, that I have opened a backup copy of the movie from another hard drive - a backup copy saved before any of the video settings were altered. And that file has the same problems, too. I'm frustrated with the way Final Cut handles system preferences and doesn't adjust to the preferences of the individual file, but rather the last saved settings. Makes it difficult to backtrack.
Again, thank you for struggling through this tome and accept my gratitude in advance for any effort given to assist me!
Justen
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It's going to be very important for you to figure out what format your video was captured in. You have almost definitely been editing at a frame rate that was different from the frame rate of your video, which is why you were seeing problems with panning. Have you been watching the video on an external television or just on your computer screen? Chances are there isn't a quick fix for this issue. You're either going to have to learn about this technical stuff or you need to find someone who knows about it who can troubleshoot with you in person. I've written a little bit about editing in 24p on my website. This post is a good start. http://www.kylegilman.net/2007/03/01/24p-headaches/
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Your audio was probably not recorded in Pro Tools, it was edited and mixed in Pro Tools. How was your audio recorded on set? Did you have microphones going into the camera or did you record into a separate machine like a DAT player or a hard disk recorder?
My advice for now, not really knowing exactly what the problem is, and assuming the timecode on your imported AVI files matches the timecode on your DV tapes is to do a batch capture of your sequence straight from the DV tapes, capturing using the DV NTSC 48 kHz Advanced (2:3:3:2) Pulldown Removal preset. This will at least ensure that your video is at the correct frame rate. Unfortunately it won't ensure that your audio will sync up.
Also, have you tried changing the speed of your mixed audio to either 99.9% or 100.1%? This will not be a complete fix because you still probably have some duplicated frames in your video, but it might put it back in sync.
And make sure you have a back up of your project and media before you do anything else.

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what files can be stored on the server and where
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best practices on the file and folder naming
conventions. Anew file struicture of the drive that
better aligns with the business. An drive with only
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where
they should reside. The policy will include
required ownership of each folder and
required
authorizations for access to folders. Also
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describing
best practices on the file and folder naming
conventions. Anew file struicture of the drive
that
better aligns with the business. An drive with
only
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Hi
I am trying to change background of table cell but unsuccessfully. First of all I did not found any suitable method in API so I have to inherit HTMLDocument and make my own
public static class ExtendedHtmlDocument extends HTMLDocument {
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try {
writeLock();
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<html
name=html
>
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import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
public class TableEditor implements ActionListener {
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                writeUnlock();
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                "        <td>Cell1-1</td>\n" +
                "        <td>Cell1-2</td>\n" +
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                "    <tr>\n" +
                "        <td>Cell2-1</td>\n" +
                "        <td>Cell2-2</td>\n" +
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                "        <td>Cell3-2</td>\n" +
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                "</table><p>paragraph</p>");
        kit.read(reader, doc, 0);
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        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(editorPane);
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        menu.add(new JButton(new AbstractAction("Cell properties") {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
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