Tom, thanks for the info
after importing the 15fps file, editing and rendering I tried various export options to find a good mix of settings, I finally tried a simple quicktime conversion mp4 export:

and it worked just fine. almost no loss in quality. not sure why but, hey it worked…fyi
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