Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 999)

Chapter 64 Printing to Video and Output from the Timeline 999
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 Every Frame: Plays back every frame of the sequence, whether or not rendering is
required. If there are transitions or effects in your sequence that haven’t been
rendered, your sequence will not play back in real time, but every frame will be
recorded on tape.
 Forward: Plays from the current position of the playhead forward to the end of the
sequence in the Timeline.
 Reverse: Plays from the current position of the playhead back to the beginning of the
sequence in the Timeline.
7 Press the Stop button on your camcorder or deck when the sequence is finished
playing in the Timeline.
Important: The last frame in your sequence will be held as a freeze frame when
playback stops. This may be awkward if this frame is not black. To avoid this, add a Slug
generator to place black at the end of your sequence.
Outputting to VHS Tape
Although the VHS tape format is starting to be replaced by DVDs, it is still a ubiquitous
output format for work-in-progress tapes and distribution copies. There are several
ways to output to VHS tape from Final Cut Express. Because VHS is not a digital format,
and decks rarely support device control protocols, there are no capture or sequence
settings in Final Cut Express that correspond to the VHS format.
One way to output to VHS is to simply output to whatever tape format corresponds to
your sequence and then make a dub from that tape to a VHS tape. An alternative to this
method is to use a video deck to convert the digital signal from your computer to
composite analog video. For example, some DV and professional decks have the ability to
convert an incoming signal from your computer to composite analog video. This mode is
referred to as electronics-to-electronics (or E-to-E) mode, or passthrough mode.
Note: Other decks can only output to multiple video formats when a tape is playing
back, which means you have to record the signal to tape first, and then dub to VHS.