Print to Video from Final Cut Pro to a DVD recorder

[Walter Biscardi]

Your Sequence Settings must be DV or HDV for the firewire output to work Those are the only formats supported via Firewire from Apple. What type of sequence are you trying to output?

We always feed our DVD Recorder via Composite video.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Cris Olariu]

Walter –

Thank you for your response. I double checked and I have the sequence set with the DV-NTSC preset from the Easy Setup. Still nothing.

Since I am working on a MacBook Pro, do you think the DVI to Composite/S-Video would be sufficient to output my sequence, or a converter box is needed (MacBook Pro thru Firewire to the Converter Box then thru Composite/S-Video to the DVD Recorder).

I read somewhere that some DVD Recorders do not activate their DV In port unless they sense a camcorder at the other end. In other words, the DVD Recorder always wants to act as the Master and have the camcorder as the Slave. And since the laptop is also trying to act as the Master, maybe that creates a conflict.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Cris Olariu] “Since I am working on a MacBook Pro, do you think the DVI to Composite/S-Video would be sufficient to output my sequence, or a converter box is needed (MacBook Pro thru Firewire to the Converter Box then thru Composite/S-Video to the DVD Recorder). “

I’ve never tried that so I don’t know. You’ll just have to try it.

[Cris Olariu] “I read somewhere that some DVD Recorders do not activate their DV In port unless they sense a camcorder at the other end.”

Could be, I’m not sure. I’ve had two DVD recorders and the first one did have the Firewire port which we were able to use from our FCP systems, but the image quality was degraded so bad by the recorder we never used it.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Steve Eisen]

This simply will not work. You will need to feed the DVD Recorder via composite/S-Video input.

Your only solution is to connect a DV Camera to FCP via firewire. Take the Composite/S-Video & audio out of camera to input of DVD recorder.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Steve,

FWIW It can work, at least on the model I had when dvd recorders first came out. It was a Panasonic also. I was able to dump to the standalone dvd burner via the firewire input. That was back on FCP3. It might have even been version 2. The quality was fine for client previews.

[Steve Eisen]

Just like you said, on your model. There are no current DVD recorders that FCP will recognize.

I’ll bet you paid a lot for that DVD Recorder. Not because FCP could see it. The first units were very pricey.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Chris Borjis]

while we’re on the subject of DVD Recorders, my trusty
Panasonic DMR-E30 just finally stopped recording reliably
on DVD-+R discs.

It will read all discs just fine and RAM recordings are
fine, just not burnable discs.

The unit has over 3,000 hrs on it. Which is a lot more than
I thought it would ever do.

I just got another refurb from ebay. Great work Panasonic!

[Baz Leffler]

I have a couple of Panasonic DMR E20’s in a rack that record directly into the firewire port. They were some of the earliest recorders and cost about $1500 each and they are still far ahead of the current recorders; fantastic quality.
I also have some Samsung recorders in each of my edit suites and while they have firewire inputs they do NOT recognise anything other than a camera. Even stranger, when I connect our J30 HDcam deck via firewire to it the Samsung says “unable to record copyright material” which is a real pity so again, the E20 comes to the rescue.

The only downside to the E20 is that you cannot create a recording without that really ugly menu wheras the Samsungs (and even our E30’s and E55’s) can do a direct play function… and of course they are huge in size, but when they are rack mounted at least they are easy to find
Baz

What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

[Joel Peregrine]

“I’ll bet you paid a lot for that DVD Recorder. Not because FCP could see it. The first units were very pricey.”

This was literally back when I was still on FCP3/OS9. I remember PC users saying it wasn’t being recognized by their computers. It was the first model they came out with that had a hard drive built in, which was really handy. The menus were really ugly and you had to have one – no autoplay option. Compared to what they go for today it was expensive – in the $850 range. I got a third of that back a year later on eBay.