[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Very glad to hear you discovered the problem; looking at the 1394 card would have never occurred to me. Great sleuthing!
Also glad to hear the book was of use, and appreciative of the kind words.

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Yup.
The easy way is to create your text event with a single line, and put the text at the bottom, off screen to the right, and keyframe it so that at the end of the text event, the text moves to the left.
You can find a downloadable veg file here
HTH

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

In the capture utility, it is possible to set the length of capture. Potentially, you’ve set this to capture only one frame in length.
Open your Capture utility, view Preferences, and see if you have anything specified in the Capture Length.

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We use (primarily) TY here, they hold up great, some are several years old. Are you using one particular player?
Putting the DVD player on top of any hot object/heat source?
If your discs are falling apart, it would suggest something other than the disc itself. I don’t know how many thousands of discs we’ve hand-burned, but never once have had a complaint about dye chipping, etc. High heat, humidity, and extreme cold can all play a role in the early death of a disc. You suggest you’re keeping them dry and cool, so those likely aren’t factors. Perhaps try a premium grade vs Walmart/Target quality discs?

We do burn at the highest possible speeds. According to engineers at Evatone (our replicator), the highest failure rates are found in slow burn/1-4x burned DVDs. DiscMakers has said the same thing to us. I don’t know if this is related to your problem or not.

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Two primary questions then:
1-What is the source footage of the project?
2-What status is the project currently?

For example, you might export the video as a single file from Vegas, with a reference audio track, and finish the audio mix in FCP, doing the export for Dolby E from there.
If you could provide an idea of what you’ve done in Vegas, what needs to be done before final output (if anything), etc. The current state of the project in Vegas could have a lot to do with the complexity of the transfer to FCP.

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You’re sure it’s a jpg and not a format with an alpha channel?

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You don’t need AAF, nor Duck, particularly if this is an HD file, depending on the final delivery point/format.
You can export to XDCAM, for example, and FCP will open it straight.
You can export to QT and FCP will open it as well, unless it’s a long-form QT. Vegas seems to have issues with some codecs and lengthy QT files.

The *easiest* method of doing this IMO, is as Mike K recommends; do a print to tape. I’ve done it straight from a PC to my MacBook Pro so it’s a single pass, never going to tape. This is format dependent.
Another option, but the slowest, is to export a sequential TGA or PNG. I wouldn’t do this for long segments.

Do you need to keep the project in an unfinished format so you can swap back and forth between Vegas and FCP? Or have you rough cut in Vegas and want to finish in FCP? It’s very challenging to attempt a constant swap/share between Vegas and FCP (or FCP and anything else). You’ll do best to export a file from Vegas that is as polished as you want Vegas to take it, and finish in FCP from there, or vice versa.
if it’s cuts-only, you could also export a text EDL that FCP should read (been a while since I’ve done this, and I remember there were a couple of hiccups, but it did work). Dennis Kutchera once had a good article on EDLs, Avid, and FCP, I’m sure it’s still around.

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I haven’t seen this but would take a stab at your video card, drivers, etc. Rolling and slip editing are common practices, and I’m reasonably confident other users would report this as a problem. It would be annoying.
I’m not sure what you mean by “can’t see if the footage has cuts?” If you are rolling/slipping an event, then you’re only seeing the in/out points of that event (clip). Therefore, there can’t be any cuts in that event.
What I see when I slip/ALT edit, is that the screen splits in half at whatever resolution I’m previewing, with the sides squeezed so that the entire frame content is visible, but in half-screen on each side for the in/out points. If you’re seeing anything different, I’d be looking at vid card, drivers, RAM, CPU speed as potential culprits.
Be aware that at this time, Vista is not supported.

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Try these fixes;

~rename file in Explorer without ATM suffix (to my knowledge, atm is only used for audio to text, but I could easily be mistaken).

~check sample rate, be sure it’s at least 32k/8 bit. Sometimes, some sound cards don’t like lesser sample rates.

~open wav file in your fave audio editor (maybe even Vegas in new project) and save as a new name.

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