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[Shah] “and can burn 32X, which means that a one-hour DVD can be burned in two minutes (!)”

Don’t count on THAT for some time to come.
Even if the BURNER (drive) can run at “32x” (puffery in advertising) the actual “compression” step into MPEG of the video will take much longer.

About the best you can hope for (to maintain quality) is real-time (plus the “Finalize” step).

The set-top recorders are actually very good at burning DVDs.

I have two very inexpensive burners that I use to make make client dubs. (They have no internal HD).

If I set them to record in “One-Hour per disc” mode or “Two-Hours per disc” mode the quality is very fine.
(Virtually indistinguishable from the DV master.)

One of my units burns “DVD-R” and the other burns “DVD+R”.
The “-R” takes over 10 minutes to Finalize a DVD with a single :30 commercial on it LESS time if it is “fuller”.
The “+R” takes only a couple of minutes to Finalize under the same :30 spot conditions.
BUT… the “-R” discs will play on many more consumer DVD players than the “+R” discs (in my own and others’ experience.)

My technique is to output from FCP to DV tape via FW (no generation loss from FCP) and connect another deck or camcorder to the DVD recorder. Then burn it to a DVD in real-time while I continue to edit on the Mac.

Internal HD DVD recorders are mainly for “RAM TV recordings” (think TiVo) with the burner section used to “save” shows.

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[David Roth Weiss] “Try lassoing the clips you want to affect on the timeline and drop the effect on top or put it in the viewer and change its settings first before applying.”

Well, no.

To add Multiple Transitions:

Create the transition you want and make it your “Default Transition”.
(You can change the default by control clicking on it in the fx tab.)

Range Select (Select All of) your clips on the timeline.
Drag this selection into the canvas

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Given your equipment and software (there are plenty of other ways to do this) just capture audio-only from the cassette into FCP.

Edit anything out (or extra pauses IN) on the FCP timeline.

Make separate “cuts” (separate timelines is a “sure” way to do this) if you want the CD to have multiple “cuts”.

Choose: File (menu) > Export > Audio to AIFF(S).

After the export, drop the new file(s) into a new empty iTunes window (Name the iTunes Window what you want to call the CD) and rearrange the “cuts” into the order you want them to play.

In iTunes, choose: iTunes (menu) > Preferences > Burning > (choose) Audio CD.

Burn the CD.

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About the FireWire device issue:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

Otherwise:

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

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First thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.

Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”

Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

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[adguy31] “but I am a little concerned about the echo/reverb from the other kitchen”

And you SHOULD be.

There is practically nothing that can do that for you.

That’s why for decades, in difficult locations, film producers have REPLACED the actual dialogue with NEW clean studio tracks re-recorded (lip-synced) by the actors.

I’m not saying you NEED to do this (may not be practical) but even the “big boys” can’t fix reverberant location audio.

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Agreed.

That’s Bias “SoundSoap” (Now called “SoundSoap 2”).

https://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundsoap/

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[jimmie] “see what I mean?”

Yes.

But, you may not see MY meaning.

If you CAN record the solo sound you want… great! Record it.

The PROBLEM is you most-likely will NOT be able to isolate it from the other sounds that (probably) will drown it out.
There are limits to what can be done with EQ and digital reduction that will give you enough QUALITY of what you need to hear.

If THAT is the case… you can have a pro CREATE the solo sound (or a reasonable facsimile) of the ADUIO elements (for demonstration purposes) on the computer.

The same way that YOU are creating a reasonable facsimile of the VISUAL elements (for demonstration purposes) in animation.

Some things just can be accomplished with a camera and a mic (some need to be “simulated”).

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The preferred workaround (and its a common problem) is to make an entire copy of the problematic master tape to a new DV tape via FireWire.

You can use ANY kind of DV camcorders (home-video is fine) or DV decks for making the copy.
The quality will not suffer and there will be no generation loss.

You will then have a new tape to capture from with continuous Timecode and the tear-ups will most-likely not be a problem.

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You’ve been watching too much TV fiction about this stuff.

It usually just doesn’t WORK like that.

Assuming its a complex sound (as most real-world audio is) you could isolate a given range of frequencies,
but all of the other sounds in the mix would be composed of many of those same frequencies and still “drown-out” the solo sound you want to isolate.

The BETTER way to accomplish this is to actually record the “solo sound” that you want FIRST, then you can start out with hearing the “full” complex audio and fade to the “solo” sound when needed.

If you can’t get the REAL-LIFE “solo” sound to “play” in isolation so you can actually record it, hire an audio pro to “create” the sound for you.
(After all, you’re creating an ANIMATION because you need to do the very thing that I’m describing with the visual part of the presentation.)