Thanks for the responses. I have made new sequences and also made entirely new projects, same result. I did however find a solution. Like I said, I made a self contained quicktime that was 3.18 long. i made a new seq., marked an in and out that was the correct length of the show and did a fit to fill edit and everything lined up perfectly. My clip was sped up to 100.10%…don’t ask me why, but it all works now and the show is on tape.