Still Image On FireWire Export ...

Hello All,
FCP 7.0.2
Sony Z7
Firewire Cable
Every import/export has been working perfectly until today. I have not knowingly adjusted any settings within FCP - it works, why should I?
So, I am editing in DV (PAL 4:3) and once finished, I connect the Z7 by the Firewire Cable, make sure that my Easy Settings are DV > DV Firewire Basic, that I have a 4:3 image on the Z7 flip-out monitor, that the sound comes out of the Z7 internal speaker and away I go.
Today, for a reason best known to itself, on playback I have a 'drop frame' warning and, just to add insult to injury, the image on the Z7 it a still frame but the audio comes through nicely (the image moves on the Canvas window of FCP).
I reduced my playback setting and, took a look at the Codec I was using. For some reason it was set to H.264, when I normally have it on Apple ProRes 422 (HQ).
I selected the usual Codec and rendered.
Nothing has improved - there is a still image on the Z7 but the audio comes through OK.
Yes, I have refreshed the A/V Device and the output is "All Frames".
Any help would be gratefully received!
sp

Sky Pix
If you are outputting to DV then all your ProRes nonsense counts for nothing, nada, zilch, because at then end you are wholly discarding when you export as DV.
At the moment you are simply over taxing your system unnesserily by forcing it to perform a double conversion ... ie realtime conversion from the source DV PAL codec to the sequence ProRes codec then immediately to reconvert from the sequence ProRes codec to the DV PAL Video Playback codec.
Regardless of you earlier workflows, you might as well get back to basics. Set your sequence to a standard DV PAL preset and your Video Playback to Apple Firewire ... all will be well again.
Hope that helps
Andy

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