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Print To HDV
On my dual 2.7 G5 w/1.5 GB RAM & FCP 5.1, I’m trying to print to video an HDV timeline into a Sony HVR-M25U but I get the following message:
“Unable to perform print to video operation for HDV as RT Extreme is not supported. Improved CPU Speed and/or RAM needed to enable RT Extreme and HDV Print to Video.”
This is only a 6 second segment (a trial for a bigger timeline) so the computer is more than powerful enough. Output for Print to Video is HDV.
This is just one of the problems trying to get the timeline out to the deck. Sony got me situated with the deck so this is a Final Cut issue.Thanks,
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The best way to print HDV to tape is to export the entire edit (I include bars and tones and slates and 30 seconds of black at the end) as a Self-Contained Movie. Then import that into FCP and print that to tape with RT set to Safe and Playback to Tape set to full. (When the picture is absolutely locked, I’ll even discard all the render files up to that point before exporting just to be sure it encodes from the sources only — it takes about 4-6 hours to render 30 minutes of an HDV edit, depending complexity and effects, so plan on an overnight render before layback….I think the time is the same if you just let the FCP do the “conform,” But then if you stop the layback for some reason, you have to wait again for the conform (some people have claimed that the wait isn’t as long the second time, but I could never wait long enough to find out.))
RT Extreme is meant to reduce quality to give you real time playback during editing, (and with HDV it is hardpressed to do even that), but that should not be on during record under any circumastances as it will reduce the quality of the recorded playback. HDV is even more problematic, since the an enitre edit must be “conformed” before the layback can start, so using Unlimited RT doesn’t even seem possible (though you’d think FCP would know that and ignore the RT settings.)
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