Digi Beta-DV editing- DVD for reproduction....Best workflow

I have access to 3 digi beta cameras to film a concert of band....
I would like to then edit it in FCP V6....
I have a mac book pro Intel.....and a E-sata drive attached to the Macbook pro..
vias PC express card.
I know that I would have to get some kind of box to convert it to DV for editing..
Just wabnt to know what format,etc...
Then I would like to out put it to DVD studio pro for production...
Its all a bit new to me at the moment.....any thoughts or advice would be appreciated
Mac book pro 2.33 Intel   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

You'll need a way to capture the digi beta... i.e. a deck... which do you or will you use?
You could just take the analog out from a betacam deck, and capture that signal via a DV camera, but it wouldn't be as good as using an Io for the job via SDI...
You'd need a keyspan adapter to capture the timecode correctly if you use a DV deck or camera for the transcode.
After capture to DV, the rest of the wrokflow would be pretty much the same as any DV workflow.
All that said, you'd have a much better looking edit if you captured the digibeta thru an Io HD to Pro Res 4:2:2 or to uncompressed 10 bit SD (which would require a faster drive setup)... but that won't be available until July sometime.
Jerry

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