Final cut pro to canopus to beta deck

i can't get the firewire output to the beta deck. have an ADVC-110 media converter. so the setup is firewire (4 or 6-pin, have tried both) video/audio output of the mac, into the canopus, then from the red/white/yellow outputs there is a stereo pair of RCA cables with XLR adapters going to a Beta SP deck. I've gotten other signals in and out of the decks and input/outputs on the canopus. problem has definitely been narrowed down to the mac, or final cut pro. i've set every setting i can find to apple firewire but still can't get it.
any ideas?...

Can you get a preview out to a monitor.
So go FW out of your Mac to the ADVC-110, then output analog S-Video for video and RCA red/white for audio out to a monitor.
If you get a preview to the monitor, then it should load up to the Beta deck via S-Video and RCA cables fine.
Make sure your Beta deck is setup correctly as well.
And i have seen plenty of S-Video cables go bad. Make sure those badboys are in good shape and/or new ones.
Let us know...

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