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Need help FCP project to dvd recorder…Please help!!!
I just bought a dvd recorder and I hit print to tape using a fire wire cable…the dvd player/recorder is not recognizing it…should i use another conection or different settings…need to get this to client for approval.Thanks in advance for your help!!!
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Not sure what dvd recorder your talking about but I assume its a consumer dvd recorder in which it acts like a vcr and records. If so, use the analog inputs with the dvd recorder and connect it to your D to A converter (deck, camera etc) out’s. Render out your sequence into a quicktime (ie mix it down) and re import. Just play it in your timeline as you record on your dvdr. We do this all day long in my cutting room
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[Lauren] “I just bought a dvd recorder and I hit print to tape using a fire wire cable…the dvd player/recorder is not recognizing it”
1. There is no timecode coming back from the DVD recorder for FCP to recognize.
2. The DVD recorder can’t “emulate” a tape-roll either.
3. The DVD recorder is actually designed to be the CONTROLLER of the INCOMING DV device (in this case, FCP) and so that’s why there is no “recognition” of either device.The “play it out of the Mac as you record it” via analog connections (as suggested) is one good solution.
OTOH, my work-flow is to output the FCP project via FireWire to a DV tape (I keep my projects on tape masters and I like to have an exact copy of the version I’m sending the client, anyway.)
Then, I connect a DV deck or camcorder to the FireWire input on the DVD recorder and let the DVD recorder control the DV device and make the copy in ALL DIGITAL from the tape in real-time (as I continue to work at the Mac on other things.) -
[Lauren] ”
I just bought a dvd recorder and I hit print to tape using a fire wire cable…the dvd player/recorder is not recognizing it.”Hit record on the DVD Recorder, hit Play on your FCP timeline. Keep it simple.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
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Thats what I was triing to do…I have projects that are over 1 hour and 30 min so the traditional consumer mini-dv tapes only go up to a max of 1 hour and 30 minutes…do you know where I could get longer tapes…thanks for your help!
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q[Lauren] “Thats what I was triing to do…I have projects that are over 1 hour and 30 min so the traditional consumer mini-dv tapes only go up to a max of 1 hour and 30 minutes…do you know where I could get longer tapes…thanks for your help!
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That’s why god created VHS.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Does your dvd recorder put a menu to it…I got a sony and it puts a menu to it when it finalizes the burn…Do you know what I can do!!
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[Lauren] “Does your dvd recorder put a menu to it…I got a sony and it puts a menu to it when it finalizes the burn…Do you know what I can do!!”
Yes, it creates a simple menu at the end of the record. What i do first is set the record speed, like on a VHS. I can set from 1 hour to 4 hour record time on a DVD. After the recording is complete, I name the clip which becomes a chapter on the DVD, then when I’m done, I tell the Recorder to finalize the disc.
Should all be right in the manual that came with the machine.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
https://www.biscardicreative.comNow in Production, “The Rough Cut,” https://www.theroughcutmovie.com
Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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You need to purchase a DSR-11. It plays/records both full-size and mini DV/DVCAM tape. Over 4.5 hrs of record time using 184 minute DVCAM tape in DV mode.
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Wouldn’t it be easier just to export a FCP movie and burn it with iDVD?
Whats the advantage to playing out and recording on an external DVD player?Here at my TV station we use Panasonic DVD recorders for our airchecks and for straight tape-to-DVD dubs, so I see the advantages they have, but I just dont get using them coming out of an NLE. Unless you dont have a superdrive.
DWR
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In my experience the DVDs created with these near-realtime burners are better quality than iDVD, and they have a wider compatibility with older players. Also I have three of them hooked up to an analog audio/video DA…it’s rare that I only make one DVD when it comes to client approvals.
Joe Murray
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