Need help with MPEG-2 Export in FC Pro

[Bizmopeen]

Hello, All;

I seem to be having a tough time of it with exporting my Final Cut Pro 2.0 session to MPEG2. When I open up the files in DVD Studio Pro 1.0 and try to set chapter points, the audio seems to slip out of sync over the course of the encode; it's a few seconds at the end of an hour.

I know this is analogous to the slippage you'll see if you have a problem with drop frame/non-drop frame timecode, so I've tried to set my & "timecode" tab in the "preferences" section several ways before exporting: set to drop frame/non-drop, etc. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is this a common issue? I don't know if it makes a difference, but in the editing bin I've got, the length for the sequence is always in a semicolon format (denoting drop-frame TC) and the length for the clip itself is always in colon format (denoting non-drop).

Thanks very much

[DJ dB]

DVD Studio Pro's previewer is extremely buggy. Are you experiencing this problem in the viewer, or in the images you've built &/or formatted?

-r

[lordsmurf]

I could probably help, but what's all that junk in your message? Hard to read.

[galactica]

I cleaned it up a bit, now its much easier to read 8)

[Bizmopeen]

Thanks for the cleanup, Galactica!

I'm seeing the drift in preview AND when I burn test discs, so it doesn't seem to be a preview difficulty (though as a side note I have noticed preview mode being off at least once in the past. Is there any way to fix that? Is it seemingly random?)

Thanks for the help, folks!