[Michael Peele]

Did you capture each tape (into FCP) the DV as a single clip? Somewhere around 35 minutes a DV capture can begin to lose A/V sync. This might be your issue. To fix it, try capturing each tape as at least 2 clips.
Mike

[Michael Peele]

shontz – I think you are soo right about having to leave FCP to create an mp3 – what gives?

You can create almost every other type of media using QT conversion – but not the most popular compressed audio format!?

And what about importing an mp3 – I put an mp3 on the timeline, render it and it sounds like **** – pops, dropouts, etc. Forgive me if I am missing something, but if I put a QT compatible audio file on the timeline and render it, why can’t it do as good of a job as QT or iTunes? If I take the same mp3, and export it as an AIFF in QT or iTunes or other conversion software, I get perfectly good results placing that AIFF on the timeline. Shouldn’t FCP’s render of my mp3 result in a similar file that plays back okay?

Okay thats my FCP rant for right now (more to follow)!
By the way, if you know how to fix the above issue, please let me know!

Mike