Transition problems

Hello Friends,
I recorded 80 hours of HDV on miniDV through my CANON XL H1. I was shooting in HDV 1080i x 30. When I went to capture, all was well. I used I Movie HD 6 and added 2 transitions (fade in and cross dissiolve) as well as a title. When I tried to send to Quicktime, I would get to the crossdissolve transitionend then I MOVIE would crash. I'd get the message:
Thread 18 Crashed:
0 ...pple.AppleIntermediateCodec 0x16ccfbac
iCodecDecompressorComponentDispatch + 28874
1 ...pple.AppleIntermediateCodec 0x16ccadba
iCodecDecompressorComponentDispatch + 8920
2 ...pple.AppleIntermediateCodec 0x16cc9ba6
iCodecDecompressorComponentDispatch + 4292
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90023d87 pthreadbody + 84
The same thing happens when I don't sent to Quicktime but try to burn the project from I MOVIE to I DVD. I get to the transition and then it crashes. This never happened before this 80 hour shoot. Now it Any advice ??? Peace, Joe Ray

Hello Friends,
I am sorry I couldn't respond any sooner but I had to finish a brief for a trial next week that I intend to prove my client innocient at. This afternoon I noticed that the error causing the transition to act up was not present on the original video tape. I recaptured the video and guess what? ...it worked fine. So I guess I have a problem of a "group of video frames" dropping out... Seems like it is usually 8-10 frames at a time.
As it is not on the miniDV tape, can anyone explain to me why this occures? I should note that the occurrence of the frames dropping out happens randomly. Can any experts on this issue shed a little light? Peace, Joe Ray

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