[Sean Porter]

I am in the exactly the same boat – I too thought it would be incredibly clever to use a set top burner to make real time screeners and DVD copies of dailies. I have a Samsung DVD-R155 and soon found the same as you – I can only get it to recognize a video signal from my deck, not FCP. It would be incredibly clunky to have to dump to miniDV first, then back to the recorder.

What kills me is that if its a control track of sorts the the recorder needs, it cannot be a impossible feat of software to provide a ‘dummy’ track that the recorder can interpret, if only for the sake of accepting the video signal. This seems like either firmware hack on the DVD recorder side or even just a simple plug in for FCP that makes the firewire signal ‘look’ like something from a camcorder. Is this unreasonable?