Make Freeze Frame--Grabs 5 Seconds Later

I'm not sure why this is happening, but every time I try to do a Make Freeze Frame of a particular frame in the timeline, it always pulls the image 5 seconds LATER in the timeline!! I've tried pulling the Freeze Frame from the Canvas window and the Viewer window with the same results.
Here are the specs:
Video is ProRes 422 (HQ) @ 25 fps. Timeline matches same specs with square pixels and no field dominance. The footage is exported from a Keynote presentation. However, when I sent the export I chose 30fps although the final footage came out at 25fps. This footage is listed in FCP @ 25fps and if I open it in QT it also is listed @ 25fps.
Any thoughts?

ProRes HQ is a heavy format. Make sure you are editing on a fast RAID and Mac. My guess would be the computer is struggling with the playback of ProRes HQ and by the time you hit your frame grad it takes a moment to process.
Instead of trying to do frame grabs on the fly. I would stop near the section of video you want to make a freeze frame. Then go frame by frame for an exact frame grab. Might be a little slower but more accurate.
In terms of your 25fps. Try re-exporting and confirm your settings are set to 30fps.

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