One more strange thing to add, I tried to consolidate copy the sequence out of the fw-800 into the eSata, low and behold, same sync issue, as in the audio would be out of sync about 45seconds into the segment. This gets wierder and wierder. The easy solution is to bounce out the segment and use that clip, but then I loose most edit capabilities, just wanted to see what the experts thought of this issue.
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