Print to Video HD to cam

I'm trying to layback 1080i to cam tape out of FCX 4. It's a cannon HV20. All I can do is send 720x480. The easy setup is Apple Inter. Codec 1080i60. The View/Video Out/Apple FireWire NTSC (720x480) seems to be the only viable option that gets it to the camera, or did I miss something. I want it to be 1080i, not 720. Is what I want impossible. I would really like to have my HD material edited, then recorded back to tape for viewing full blown.

It still does not appear. Sometimes the camera records nothing, and other times it starts to record but then stops because it is getting no input. I have trashed the program and reloaded it with no difference. I have however gotten it to do something different. If I go into Sequence/Settings and click the button that says "Load Sequence Preset..." and select AIC1080i60 (which is already selected) and click OK, all my clips become unrendered. So I render enough for the "in and out point", start "Print to Video and now I get an additional progress bar that says "Transcoding to HDV". It takes about 4 minutes to get through this. Now it starts recording to tape, BUT...it puts on the count down because I selected that, a small area of video a little squished, and the sound is way out of sync. The sound started with the count down. I'll play with this more tonight, must get back to my real job.

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