HVR-1500 Not Accepting FCP 6 Output

Just started using the Sony HVR-1500 deck and have had good success capturing footage from both HDV and DV tapes (using their respective capture settings, naturally) into FCP 6.0 via firewire.

However, I cannot get the same deck to output my DV NTSC or HDV timelines back from Final Cut, either in using View>External Video or Print to Video . Nothing that I do works-- even pressing the iLink button on the front of the deck (like the manual says). I have hooked up a Sony GV-D1000 that has a small built-in monitor and this works as I see and hear my timeline playing. It would seem that the firewire cable and port (at least on the MacPro G5 ) is working but I'm not sure about the HVR-1500. BTW, I have a Matrox MXO system hooked up in this configuration and for monitoring playback. It works great. However, I cannot get the same footage into the deck. I can turn off the MXO by pressing apple-F12 but that just turns off the MXO and places the desktop on the 23" ACD and 14" Sony NTSC screens. So I change my FCP output settings to Apple Firewire NTSC (720 x 480) and still nothing. Note: there's a small monitor screen on the HVR-1500 that does not show anything when I try to use it.

I have confirmed the deck passes video by playing video through it into the Sony NTSC monitor, so the deck is working in that capacity. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

System: Apple MacPro G5, FCP 6, 4 gigs RAM, Matrox MXO for monitoring HDV (also monitor DV).

Thanks for your input!

After posting my request for help, I continued to dig through the manual/deck menus and found the same menus you mentioned and was able to tweak our 1500 into accepting DV from our FCP.

But your post was very helpful nonetheless-- if not only to me, to others experiencing the same issue.

Thanks again!