This deck is not a rental. We have successfully layed off to it before from FCP. We are using FCP 5.1 with a Blackmagic Design card. I am just wondering if there is some sort of setting I am missing in FCP. Everything should be set correctly. My FCP sequence settings are 1920x1080i, 29.97, square pixel ratio, upper field,blackmagic uncompressed 8bit. The tape has been blacked to 1080i 59.94 which is 29.97. Thank you again for any help you may be able to give.