Synching in FCP - Video at 24, but final cut reading BWAVS as 23.98!!!???

Hi
I have Arri D21 rushes transcoded to Apple Pro Res HQ at 24fps. I'm attempting to symch with seperate sound but for some reason the rushes are out of synch.
When I drag the audio into a blank seq it seems to want to read the audio as running at 23.98 fps instead of 24.
If I drag the audio in a seq set up for 24fps video a green process bar appears on the audio!
The audio is running at 48Khz at 24 bit integer, they are broadcast wavs.
can anyone out there help me?

Then you did it right. Delete the audio, then change settings.
The audio doesn't have a timer in it. Neither does the video.
The video contains a specific amount of frames, regardless of how many seconds/minutes it took to capture those frames. The audio has a specific number of samples, regardless of how many seconds/minutes it took to capture those samples.
One minute of audio will always match one minute of video, as long as the sequence settings match the acquisition settings. The problem I see often is that people confuse the video frame rate. 24p is not 24 true, it's 23.98. And when people say they shot 30 frames per second, usually (but not always) they mean 29.97. These are not subtle differences, they are monumental.
So don't go by what someone told you. Open the clips and audio in whatever program you need to get the exact file specs. I tend to use MPEG Streamclip; if you go to FILE/Show Stream Info you'll get accurate specs on the true rates of both audio and video files. Quicktime Window/Show Movie Inspector will give you most of what Streamclip gives you, but not all.

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