Sync drifts when capturing in FCP 7 in DVCPRO-HD

Very puzzling - captured clips in DVCPRO-HD drift out of sync. We are capturing entire 30 minute tapes shot with the Varicam, played in Panasonic 1400 deck, ingested through Kona LH via HD-SDI, onto large external eSATA HD. We have done this hundreds of times on the old G5 with FCP 6 in FCS2, with never a problem.
Now since installing the new FCS with FCP 7 in our new 8-core Nehalem mac Pro, the capture drifts out of sync. Tried many settings, cant get it solved. New Kona drivers, everything updated, prefs trashed, etc. Note that we are on Leopard not Snow Leopard.
thanks for any help. Maybe we should go back to the G5 and fcp 6!
-Peter

Firstly, this is not a 29.97 vs 30.0 issue.
You are right...because 720p is NOT a 30 frame...nor 29.97 frame...format. It is a 60 frame format. 60fps running at 59.94. And you are trying to convert that to 29.97...might cause issues.
So when most of us say "30" here in america, we really mean "29.97."
I think only Americans responded to you. A guy from Wyoming, one from Denver, and me from Los Angeles. We know what you mean.
FYI the Varicam 27F can be set up at a system level to run at either 59.94 or 60.0 but it is almost always set to 59.94 here in the US.
Yup...I know that...
However, we generally do not use the term "pulldown" to describe the extraction of the "30" actual frames from the 60 frame cadence
OK, true...sorta. Any sort of frame removal is called PULLDOWN. But is isn't as complex as 30 to 24...pardon, 29.97 to 23.976.
we have been using the workflow I described for 2 or 3 years, with excellent results.
And now it doesn't work? So, what changed in that time? Anything? If you are doing the same thing you have been doing for years, and then suddenly it stops working, then the culprit will be anything you did differently, or any new software, or new version of software that you "updated" to.
So this worked with FCP 6, but not with 7. Hmm...and you are sure that everything is set up EXACTLY the way you did before? Are you missing some setting somewhere? I don't do this conversion, so I'm not sure where to check.
Shane

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