Printing the final cut movie to video

hi-
i have a project of a few scenes and and stuff thrown together compiling an hour of edited footage on fce- i would like to output this onto a mini dv tape from the computer -i have a mini dv camera ready to go with firewire attached to my mac
can someone please let me know the blow by blow- play by play action -steps of how to do this?
thanks
josh

Mixdown the audio.
Check that View >Video>Firewire is active. You may
have to open FCE after your camera is powered on in
VCR mode.
Go to File >Print to Video.
Put a check mark in any of the Leader boxes
required.
Select any Media and Tralier options required.
Hit OK.
Al
i was able to print to video but now it is jumping and wont output nicely

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