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FCP and forcing firewire output to DVD recorder
Hello all,
I thought i was being very clever and purchased a DVD recorder that has a 4 pin firewire input on it for “camera transfers”(their wording on the box) in essence it can record via a firewire input. My thought process being that i could just come straight out of fcp into it and do real-time dvd burns for screeners, tests, etc instead of having to encode in dvd stud., imovie or popcorn. So it came in last night and i was and am pretty damn tired, for the life of me i could not figure out how and if i can make fcp spit out via firewire to a “non controllable device” that it does not recognize. So, wondering if anyone had any ideas, i think i should be able to force it to do this but i am either being incredibly stupid or missing something. Thank in advance mates.
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4 Replies
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i should have been much more specific, i suck. It is a commercial dvd recorder …
it isn’t a dvd writer like something from lacie that you connect to a computer. Hopefully that sheds more light, it is specifically designed to receive 4pin firewire in for video recording i just need to trick FCP into spitting it out via firewire since it does not recognize this random device that is not a camera or professional deck. Thanks!
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Mfr and model would help but most FW inputs on DVD recorders don’t see video.
bogiesan
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Use a DVI to HDMI cable and send the video out that way, and just route the audio using an 1/8 to RCA cable. Kludgy as all hell, but it’ll work
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I am in the exactly the same boat – I too thought it would be incredibly clever to use a set top burner to make real time screeners and DVD copies of dailies. I have a Samsung DVD-R155 and soon found the same as you – I can only get it to recognize a video signal from my deck, not FCP. It would be incredibly clunky to have to dump to miniDV first, then back to the recorder.
What kills me is that if its a control track of sorts the the recorder needs, it cannot be a impossible feat of software to provide a ‘dummy’ track that the recorder can interpret, if only for the sake of accepting the video signal. This seems like either firmware hack on the DVD recorder side or even just a simple plug in for FCP that makes the firewire signal ‘look’ like something from a camcorder. Is this unreasonable?
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