• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Outputting to Beta

  Posted by Jon Boffa on July 23, 2006 at 11:34 pm

  I’ve been working in FCP but only have been exporting via DVD or .avi file type. I have a job that requires a beta master.
  I have no experience working with my G5 / FCP and getting my finished project to a tape media.
  In short, how is this done? I guess I have to rent a beta deck, firewire it to my G5 (?), and then use FCP’s print to video and go for it?

  Is this how it works?

  As always, any feedback is much appreciative!

  Thanks.

  Jon Boffa replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Thaxter Clavemarlton

  July 24, 2006 at 12:05 am

  Beta/BetaSP does not use FW. It is an analog format.

  If you shoot and edit in DV, just output from FCP back to your camcorder via FW and take/ship that DV tape to a production/dubbing house and pay them to transfer it to BetaSP.

  That will save you MUCH $$ and hassle.
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  Michael Gissing

  July 24, 2006 at 2:12 am

  Without a card Like a Decklink or Kona, you can’t control the deck or feed in either component analog or serial digital.

  Editors often bring me their external drive with the FCP project on it and I output to digi beta with my Decklink card. If it is not an FCP project, I ask for a DV tape and I dub it to digi beta. I prefer the FCP project file as I nest, put a broadcast safe filter on and drop it into an uncompressed sequence to render as it makes the titles better than the DV version.
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  Jon Boffa

  August 16, 2006 at 6:43 pm

  Michael: thanks for the info. Are you in the NJ/NY area?? I am starting principal videography on a :30 commercial spot and I want it to be in the highest possible resolution for when it airs. I could use your services to output the final version.
  If not in the NJ/NY area, know any editors that have a decklink / kona card that can do this for me??
  THANKS,
  Jon

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