Sony DVDirect and FCP

I use a Sony DVDirect VRDVC20 to burn screening copies of shows for clients. It has composite, s-video, and FW video inputs. Normally I send FCP output to a converter box and use the s-video output from the converter box into the Sony unit. This works and the quality is fine but I'd like to use the FW input. The unit accepts a FW input from a DV camera, but when I use the FW output direct from FCP the unit doesn't recognize the signal. When I go into the FCP video ouput settings it shows "[missing]Apple FW NTSC." Sony says the unit is not supported by the MAC OS. How is the video signal carried by a FW cable from a camera different from the the FCP video signal coming out of the MAC via FW? There obviously is a difference between these signals. Is there a way around this, or is there a setting in FCP that I have wrong?

firewire is a bi directional communication protocol. If sony says it doesn't talk FCP it doesn't. There are a number of devices that do not play well with FCP.
I do not believe there are user controllable settings in FCP regarding Firewire other than
1. Firewire or Firewire BASIC '
2. Controllable or non-controllable devices.
Your recorder is a non-controllable device. Try that and see what happens.
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