You need to add a black slug to the end of your timeline that is 20% or greater than the length of your show. It has to do with the fact that FCP/QT can’t count at 23.976 frames per second during the handoff, so you’ll have to trick it with the black slug. I’ve had to do this with every 23.976 timeline I’ve output.
I can almost guarantee you that it’s not the deck. I have a Panasonic AJ-D440 DVRPRO deck that gives the same error in FCP 5.0.2 running under Tiger with my Aurora PipeStudio card. The Pipe also has bullt-in in RS-422. I’m having some success with my old Keyspan 28X USB to serial adaptor for RS-422 control. Something is up with Panasonic decks and FCP5/Tiger.
What are your drive names? FCP doesn’t like similarly named drives such as Drive1, Drive2, Drive3 etc… A better naming system is something like Homer, Bart, Maggie, etc…
I have had your timeline problem as well in the past. I was able to fix it by making the media offline, and then reconnecting it. The gap-in-the-timeline problem went away. This problem only seem to happen on clips that were captured with the “make new clip” option selected on video with timecode breaks.
I have found that if I delete the “Make New Clip” clips from my project, and them reimport them, they behave just fine. Does anyone have any time to confirm this?? Thanks!