Import/Export from Betacam SP to FCP

I have been contacted to make minor edits to a program for broadcast. The program is on Betacam and I plan to import the footage using a Sony Betacam SP UVW-1600 plugged into an ADS Pyro AV Link Bidirectional DV Media Converter connected via firewire to a Mac Pro with FCP, make the edits and then export back to Betacam via the same route. Can this be done the way I have planned? If so are there any changes I need to make to the video before it is exported (timecode, etc.) for broadcast?
This is not something we normally do and the import/export makes sense the way I have planned it out. But I have learned with video and all the various formats that it is usually never as easy as it seems.
Any help or advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Leon

This isn't the best way...it really isn't. You are converting the beta footage to DV when you go through the Pyro...then editing it in a 720x480 space instead of 720x486...then you will be sending that back out to Beta...and now will have vertical blanking where you are missing 6 pixels...and your quality will really suffer...and might no longer pass QC.
Then you have to figure out how you will do deck control...you will need a USB>RS-422 adapter.
You really need to get a capture card. The Decklink Extreme can be had for $995 and does SD and now prepares you for HD work...as it does HD too. Decklink does have cheaper SD only cards, as does AJA...but since the world is moving HD, it is time to get prepared for that.
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