iMovie to Standalone DVD recorder with FW port?

[cbkilner]

Has anyone had luck exporting from iMovie to a standalone DVD recorder that has a FireWire input?

I have an iMac DV (400MHz G3) running OS X 10.3 with iMovie vers. 3.03, 4.01, and HD (5.01) and a Lite-On LVW-5006 (Radio Shack vers. of 5005 with VCR+).

My edited movie is in iMovie HD (not openable by earlier versions) and when I try to "share" to "camera" via Firewire to the LVW-5006 (set to record via FW), iMovie says no camera is found.

I can trick iMovie by putting a Canopus ADVC converter in the Firewire chain to get the LVW-5006 to record and, although it usually works, it occasionally tends to be flaky and have funky audio - which never happens with movies straight from my DV camcorder.

I can double the time involved by exporting to my DV camera and then sending it to the LVW-5006, but this puts too much wear on the camera and takes too long, so ...

I want to know if other standalone DVD recorders can easily handle DV from a Mac/iMovie or whether other people have had luck with getting a Lite-On recorder to import DV from different versions of iMovie or other mac NLE programs (I seem to remember OS 9 versions of iMovie exporting to tape better than recent versions). If a different version of iMovie is known to work, I'll export the HD movie as full quality DV to import into another version (although on a 400MHz G3, it might be faster to export to tape!).

Thanks in advance.

[cbkilner]

A bit more searching turned up this:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1188502#1188502

so it looks like I will try some of these tricks out with the Lite-On 5006.

[Frobozz]

One thing I didn't mention in that other thread is you need to go to iMovie Preferences and place a check mark next to "Play DV Project through to DV Camera". This is in the Playback preferences for iMovie HD. With this checked you should see the video from your timeline on your TV (via the standalone recorder) without even clicking the play or record buttons. There is no reason to use the Share menu.

You also might want to look into Simple Video Out X. This lets you export DV video via Firewire without launching iMovie. Here's a link to info:
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/12/22/video_out.html

[cbkilner]

The tricks that work on the Pioneer don't seem to work on the Lite-On LVW-5006. Switching the source or using the DV recording setup on the 5006 didn't get it seeing the timeline or video, either with "play DV through to camera" preference checked in iMovie 4.01 or using the share menu in iMovie 4.01 or 5.01 (HD), but I haven't tried the play through option in the latter.

I'll keep trying - the only semi-working method on the LVW-5006 is using the Canopus ADVC-300 Firewire ports as a pass-thru...if I get iMovie to DV-in on the Lite-On LVW-5006 working, I'll let you know.