FCP to EXT DVD

[Russell Lasson]

[allthelightsarebroken] “it has a fire wire input, though should go to the DV deck first and then component itto the ded recorder?”

that’s probably the best way. that way, your deck can add the timecode overlay.

If your transcribers are using QT 7.1.6 or later, they can see the timecode track instead of the counter if they select. this way, you wouldn’t need to render your video with a timecode window.

-Russ

[Dan Riley]

You don’t do anything different as far as FCP is concerned.
If you can play your timeline out to your DV deck, I’d run e to e, out of your DV deck
into your DVD recorder. Use the composite out of your DV deck into your DVD recorder.
You can’t input component into DVD recorders, only the composite inputs.
Monitor the output of your DVD recorder while doing this so you know what you are recording.
As for editing to tape at the same time…well you’ll have to render your sequence
before FCP will let you do that, so you really are losing the advantage of real time
playback into the DVD recorder.

Dan

[Allthelightsarebroken]

Cool, good to hear i get this working, I’ve over 70 36 minute offline tapes (now rushes) to get to the transcribers over the next few weeks, we haven’t got a digi player of our own so theres gonna be some long nights!! What i was thinking was to dump all of say TAPE1 into the timeline, drop a read timecode box (the tape timecode, not the sequence timecode btw) onto the clip or clips, maybe render it if i need to (it shouldn’t take long eh?) and then record out onto dvd through the dv deck. I was just wondering if i needed the dv deck part of it, could I just firewire out straight into the dvd recorder? It all sounds very easy in theory

[Dan Riley]

You should be able to go firewire to firewire, yes. But every DVD recorder
is different, just like DV cameras. Some DVD recorders will recognize FCP directly
and others won’t. You just have to try it. How do you get video into your
DVD recorder now?

And doing it this way, you really shouldn’t have to render. If your clip is DV and your timeline is DV, dropping the timecode filter on the sequence will probably give you that light green (full) color not the bright green (preview) color. So the quality should be fine. The “preview” color means it might not be full resolution going out, however the “ful”l color means it’s ok.
But if you were doing an edit to tape or exporting a quicktime, then you’d have to
render in both cases. You need all blue lines for any exporting or editing to tape.

dr