Overview

Remember I said at the beginning that the hard, technical part of nonlinear editing was at the start, setting up and setting preferences, logging and capturing? The fun part was the editing part in middle, and the easy part was the outputting at the end. We re up to the easy part, the output.

The two basic ways of outputting are:

• Exporting, if you re going to another computer application or CD or DVD or web delivery, or

• Recording to tape, if you re going to traditional broadcast or analog tape delivery

As it s probably the most common requirement for Final Cut Pro users, let s look at outputting to tape first. We see exporting later on page 554 .

There are basically three ways to get material from your computer to tape:

• Record to Tape

• Print to Video

• Edit to Tape

Record to Tape

You can get your edited material back out to tape in several different ways. The simplest one, and probably the most commonly used way, is to record to tape. Put the playhead at the beginning of the timeline, put your deck into record mode, and hit the spacebar. This is a fast, effective, and simple-to-use method.

Using playback from the Timeline