Matinee video starts in wrong location

I have set up matinee with a camera and director, and set the director to go to the camera view right at 0:0 and the last keyframe.

It looks great in preview, but if I click the movie button that saves a video, the camera gets placed far off and I have to steer it towards the character.

It makes the movie unusable. I really only want a 1.5 second clip of my in game animal moving for a loop for a school presentation.

Any and all debugging advice would be highly appreciated!!!