Log and Transfer: DVD-RAM vs DVD-RW

Question

I recently installed Final Cut Express 4 on my Macbook and I am using a Panasonic AVCHD camera to transfer footage. When I used a DVD-RAM disc the data appeared in the Log and Transfer window with no problems, however I have footage on a DVD-RW disc which I want to transfer. (Despite being RW it won't let me delete footage through my camera) My DVD-RW disc has been finalized and when I plug in my camera it shows the loading color wheel, but no film clips appear in the log and transfer. I look in the actual disc window and all the files for my clips are there, but it doesnt recognize them in log and transfer. Is there some reason that Final Cut Express 4 will only notice DVD-RAM discs?
Message was edited by: playmaker44

Answer 1

Is Toast 7 a method of making disk image(s) or
DVD(s), or are we talking about several different
things here?
YES. IT IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO IDVD.
Also, the reason I bought +RW disks and TWO of them
at that is that it seems ANYTHING I do needs to be
done about ten times to be right ONE time (hence five
days to get titles that play the way I want) and the
thought of a "write-once" disk scares me.
SO IF YOU MAKE DISK IMAGES FIRST YOU DON'T BURN ANYTHING AND CAN TEST IT OUT FIRST.
You know that song, "Mamma's Going to Buy You a
Mockingbird"? If this doesn't work, then that, if
that doesn't work, the next, and so on.
YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF LEARNING A BIT MORE SEE THE PRECEDING POST
If the +RW disk won't play in my VCR
A DVD CANNOT PLAY IN A VCR
I will try
playing it on my combo drive in my Mac. If it plays,
I'll see if there's a way to connect the VCR to the
Mac and copy it to videotape from that so I can
finish the rest of the project!
YOU CAN'T UNLESS YOU CAN FIGURE OUT YOUR CANOPUS BOX BETTER THAN SO FAR
(The reason I don't
go direct from the Mac to the VCR, besides the
generational loss of digital to tape, is that I want
the opening titles at the beginning, the middle title
in the middle, the closing titles at the end, and the
outtakes after that, and if I have to string them all
together into ONE project I don't see HOW I can put
them where I want on the tape without a DVD I can
start and stop!)
YOU COULD MAKE ON IMOVIE PROJECT THAT WOULD DO THIS, OR SEPARATE ONES, AND USE MULTIPLE CLIPS IN IDVD, BUT HEY YOU'VE BEEN TOLD THAT AND WON'T LISTEN, SO GOOD LUCK.
If that won't work, I'll copy it
either from the +RW disk or (if I dare!) directly
from whatever format seems best to a -R disk my
friend gave me. If none of these work, then I panic.