1-hr tape only accepts 40 minutes of media from timeline when printing to video

Your tape is probably labelled "DV," which will hold an hour of camcorder footage recorded in that format. Laying out from FCP via firewire is actually recording DVCAM, which uses more of the tape and runs it a third faster than DV to get better quality.

Your best choice is to find a supplier of DVCAM tapes. A 1-hour DVCAM tape holds a one-hour layout.

They make longer DV tapes, but I believe the longest is 83 minutes, which is still less than an hour at DVCAM speeds.

best of luck,

Greg Leslie
Tulsa

Marsha... that tape should work just fine for you, but you need a deck or camera that can record in minidv. It's basically the same ones and zeros that are coming through the firewire, it's just the deck.

Like Greg said, if the deck is set to record dvcam, you'll only get 40 minutes.

What are you recording on?

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It's not the record input, it's the record format. Firewire is firewire and if you edited in a DV25 format, then that's how you want to get it on tape, via Firewire.

If you recorded DVCam on a miniDV, it's DVCam, but only sorta. It's kind of a mutant. DVCam is the exact same quality as miniDV, but the DVCam format means that you record at a higher tape speed (less chance of error on tape) and the audio is locked to video. Means it isn't supposed to drift. When you record DVCam on miniDV you don't get the locked audio part. Never have really figured out just what that means to us as editors in a nle world. Probably nothing.

DVCam tapes usually come in 42min, and their miniDV counterparts have 63 minutes in minDV, and 42 in DVCam.