Coming into Timeline Out of Sync

I've never had this problem before. I am digitizing from an original DVCam interview into a timeline. As I watch the digitizing process, everything is in perfect sync. When I bring the clip to the Viewer and play it, it starts in sync then goes out of sync about 10 seconds in (the audio is ahead of the video). Same when I bring it to the timeline. There is no video break but the further the clip proceeds, the more out of sync it becomes. The original DVCam tape is in perfect sync, so I cannot figure what is going on here. Any ideas? Thanks.

FCP 7
10.6.8
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Weon
8 GB 667 MHz

What settings did you use to capture? Did you try to do pulldown removal on the fly? You like mixing HDV and DV -- are you sure the tape wasn't shot in HDV mode?


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Derek:
This is definitely a standard video timeline, as I digitized several clips last week (which are in the timeline) and they came in in perfect sync with no problem. I am using the same timeline, same tape, same procedure. I digitize the clip, double-click it to the viewer, mark the in and out, bring it to the timeline, and the problem now occurs. Is is definiteloy not an HDV timeline.

Derek:
I traced it back to my DR-20. It was in the digitizing, not in FCP. Sorry about that, but I need a DVR tech to solve the problem. Fortunately, I have a good one. Thanks.
Stan

Bet the DSR-20 was set to 32K sample rate! Often an unrendered off-sample rate, assuming your timeline is 48K, will manifest this.

Because otherwise DVCAM has locked audio (unlike standard DV). Great DV codec, considering.

- Loren

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DVCam isn't a codec, it's a tape format.

Another possibility: DSR-20s don't play nice with FireWire drives. Used to fry drives left and right, even when not daisy-chained. That could also cause the clips to get corrupted at the write level.


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