"30p is just Panasonic codec voodoo....it's all actually a 23.98 timeline"
That's like saying Vanilla is just Dreyer's voodoo, it's all actually chocolate...
Why don't you start with your full sequence settings in FCP, codec, frame rate, resolution- everything. And in Color. If you're having sync issues I'd suspect frame rate mismatches. Remember DVCPROHD has optically compressed frame sizes like 1280x1080 and ProRes is proper 1920x1080 etc. So please tell us more details.
Noah
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