Actually, you can get a component to SDI converter from AJA and do this that way (analog outs from HDV camera/deck to this converter)… I’ve seen the results of this and it’s very clean…
Might try cleaning the betacam machine to see if it fixes the phantom TC… The other behavior is normal I think if the batch thinks there’s a TC break. If it doesn’t find a TC break instead of Continue, it says OK as I recall.
You should be able to open the nests and then reconnect the sequences which open.. just select all in the timeline window and control click to reconnect the clips in the sequences, and will then reconnect the nests.