You’re missing the point I think. I’m trying to ask why you’re marking an out point in the timeline. What is it you’re doing? Are you backtiming something? Why are you needing to marking an out point in the timeline at the end of a shot so often?
As it’s not something I seem to find myself needing to do much, I’m curious why you’re having to go to the last frame of a shot in the timeline so often. What is it you’re doing that makes it happen so often that an extra key stroke is so onerous.
Export to QuickTime Movie. Set a custom setting rather than current settings. Choose Animation millions+ just as you would in QuickTime Conversion. This will recompress the frames, ignore the render files and create the Animation file with alpha.
What’s the material exactly? How did it get into the computer? What’s the material’s specifications and frame rate, and what’s the frame rate and specifications for the sequence? Does it play normally when opened from the browser into the viewer?
First select the clip and then activate the slip tool (s). You can then use the [ and ] keys to slip back and forth one frame or Shift-[ and Shift-] to slip the clip the designated trim edit value.
The camera actually records HDV internally. It will output uncompressed HD while shooting so you can record to an HD deck, at least that’s how I read it.