[Dream Master]

I always export as a quicktime, and then I use Streamclip 1.8 to convert to whatever format I need it to be in…. a google search on mpeg streamclip will get you to the program…

[Dream Master]

I also had experienced this, with my Sony DSR-25.
It Plays DVCPro tapes fine for playback, but through the firewire port, I get nothing….

Here was my solution…. I also have a DVCPro Camera, so I hooked up the DVCPro camera outputs into my inputs on my deck, turned on the EE passthrough on the deck, and Volia….
I have to play the tape through the camera, but it gets it into FCP via the deck and firewire…

Hope this helped you!

Darrin Martin aka Dream Master

[Dream Master]

you can edit on the timeline without having the media present on the work drive yes, but without it being present, you will get the RED missing media screen, and not be able to see what you are editing…. so Yes you could do what your asking, but it wouldn’t serve much purpose unless you know what each frame of your clips look like by memory.