Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1526)

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Preparing to Output to Tape
Tape is still the most common means of acquisition,
output, and transfer for professional projects.
Final Cut Pro allows you to output sequences or clips to
tape at any phase of your project.
This chapter covers the following:
 Choosing a Videotape Format and Equipment for Output (p. 175)
 Output Requirements (p. 177)
 Methods for Output to Tape in Final Cut Pro (p. 178)
 Setting Up Your Editing System to Output to Tape (p. 179)
Choosing a Videotape Format and Equipment for Output
The tape format you choose for output affects the capture settings of your clips, your
sequence settings, and the equipment you need. Before you begin your project, try to
anticipate the format of your final master tape, as well as the format of any work-in-
progress tapes you may distribute to other people on your team.
The most common output formats include:
 DV: The DV format family includes DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, and
DVCPRO HD. DV formats are compressed video formats designed with nonlinear
video editing in mind. Final Cut Pro allows you to edit and output native DV signals,
because a DV file on your scratch disk is virtually identical to the same DV
information on tape. When you output DV from your computer, video and audio are
combined into a DV stream, sent to a VTR or camcorder via FireWire, and then
recorded on tape.