Writing Video when laying back to tape, despite timeline been rendered...

Hi
I have a 97 minute timeline fully rendered @ Uncompressed 10bit 24sf video.
I'm trying to play out to a HDCAM SR deck via SDI output on a KONA 3 card through edit to tape. The timeline is fully rendered and plays back real time when I hit space bar and if I just want to crash record to the deck. However when I use edit to tape and try to do an assemble edit a message bar pops up saying writing video and gives me a write time of 7 hours. Does anyone know why this might be...?
My sequence settings match all my set up and deck control settings. I've double and triple checked the video format the KONA is outputting using the AJA utility... any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Jonny
Message was edited by: Jonathanatsightline

Check the settings playback settings in the Timeline window to make sure they are all set to be high quality... sounds like the playback/render quality doesn't match the recording quality so when you ask to edit to tape, it is attempting a total re render.
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