Question about Print to Video

I am using a Sony HC1 HDV camera. I captured some HDV video (using the camera to downconvert) in DV. I edited the sequence and now I want to output a copy of my finished version onto tape in standard definition. The camera is connected via firewire.
I tried to do this playing with the video/audio settings and could not get it to work. I am using Print to Video. I seem to have no problem when I print to video in HDV, but I can't get it to work in DV. Does anyone have any suggestions about settings or anything else that would make this work?

I thought I put the camera in the correct mode, but if I hear you accurately you are saying that you think it is one of my camera settings that is incorrect not my settings within FCP?
Just to verfiy what should all of my Audio/Video settings for Print to Video be for outputting DV to the camcorder? (Both video and audio)
Thanks Jerry-

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I'm new to this and I have a question about printing our invoices by page count.
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Thank you in advance

Hi Ido,
Thanks for your input. This is more or less what Carl was suggesting yesterday and I gave it a lot of thinking. The problem here is that I cannot go with "good enough resolution" - I need perfect resolution.
The reason for this apparently silly requirement (why would one sort a bunch of invoices by number of pages instead of Customer Number, as long as they end up in an envelope anyway?) is the proposed purchase of a folding/stuffing machine which could do very fast what now takes one person 4 days to achieve.
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Thank you very much. I changed my monitor to its native resolution and I think this solved the problem. Bob
J Maloney <[email protected]> wrote:
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There are several ways to accomplish what you want.
KGCW has talked about the Crop Effect.
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I have also read this informative tutorial here:
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This is the image I would like to print:
In the tutorial referred to above, the author states that when printing, 300 resolution is best and not the 79.3 px/inch that I have. When I change that 79.3 to 300, the image of Marilyn becomes tiny, so my question is how can I have an image that would neatly fit onto A4 photo paper maybe with a 1" white border around it (meaning the image size would be 8" x 6") while retaining a 300 resolution?
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Steve

Steve,
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Your original is 433 x 653 pixels. Just good enough to display on a normal laptop.
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Maybe Im misunderstanding your question, but couldnt
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Alright, I've been looking at the Java printing API. I like it, it's nice. I've got a drag-and-drop workspace that the user wants to print, so I just use m_workspace.paint(Graphics) on the print Graphics object to paint the workspace onto the page. Very nice.
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