Exporting Video From FCP and iMovie...

[Mokat]

In school we run a news program with a green screen. Right now we have been using Adobe Premiere for our backgrounds and transitions for the green screen, but we wanted to switch to a Mac program because all our editing stations are G5s and we use FCP on them.
The problem I am having is figuring out if there is a way to use either FCP or iMovie and set up a our time line with our image, animations, and videos and then broadcast those images live out of the mac, through RCA cables and into our video mixing box which then outputs to our transmitter.
Every guide I have seen with FCP or iMovie is filming in green screen then importing the video footage into FCP, editing the green screen out and then burning to a DVD and transmitting it through our DVD player.

If anyone knows a third party program or something built into these programs that would be extremely helpful.

Thanks

[terryj]

you need a third party device that allows out
via Analog using the Print to Tape feature
in either FCP or iMovie.

I currently use my Canopus ADVC-100 for this:
it basically "acts" like a fw capable Camcorder,
and when I enable the print to tape command in
FCP, it sends the timeline out via FW to the box, and then
out via RCA to my VCR, which then Shows it on my
Analog tv.

(you can also do a rudimentary bversion of the same thing
using the Firewire SDK from Apple's developer website, and
play out of your Quicktime Pro this way. I have been experimenting
with this to get content direct to a standalone DVD Recorder)

So in my scenario, start with a box like the Canopus ADVC-100,
or a FW enabled camera with Passthrough inputs, and from there
it would output to RCA cables into your video mixing box,
then to your transmitter.

another good one is the Matrox MXO although I only
know what I have read, and have no experience with it.
I do know from reading though, it will do the necessary steps WITHOUT
using the Print to Tape command in FCP or iMovie.

[Mokat]

you need a third party device that allows out
via Analog using the Print to Tape feature
in either FCP or iMovie.

I currently use my Canopus ADVC-100 for this:
it basically "acts" like a fw capable Camcorder,
and when I enable the print to tape command in
FCP, it sends the timeline out via FW to the box, and then
out via RCA to my VCR, which then Shows it on my
Analog tv.

(you can also do a rudimentary bversion of the same thing
using the Firewire SDK from Apple's developer website, and
play out of your Quicktime Pro this way. I have been experimenting
with this to get content direct to a standalone DVD Recorder)

So in my scenario, start with a box like the Canopus ADVC-100,
or a FW enabled camera with Passthrough inputs, and from there
it would output to RCA cables into your video mixing box,
then to your transmitter.

another good one is the Matrox MXO although I only
know what I have read, and have no experience with it.
I do know from reading though, it will do the necessary steps WITHOUT
using the Print to Tape command in FCP or iMovie.

Awesome I have the same exact Canopus model in school. The only problem I was having was getting FCP to recognize the output box, so it wasn't sending a signal out.

[edDV]

There is a timeline preview mode in FCP that sends timeline previews out the Firewire port but I forget how to enable it. You can use any DV camcorder (or the ADVC) to convert to analog.