Hi Shane,
Thanks for the response! I was ending up with out of sync audio when I tried to Merge Clips via timecode from the browser, which I can’t explain. I’m going to try to duplicate that problem after my current exports are finished.
For now, I’m exporting with Compressor instead of Batch. (I was never exporting straight from the timeline, always from the browser.)
My exports through Batch were also looking contrasty and saturated, and I really never export straight from FCP for weirdnesses just like that, but was doing my best to follow guidelines I’d picked up for my task at hand.
So, I have a workflow that’s working for all my needs now, just still wondering why those errors were happening with the Merged Clips in Batch mode.