I need to make an HDCam for festivals of my short film.

My question is this...Is there a way to export a file of my finished film to an external hard drive and then bring that drive to somewhere to make an HDCam tape...or do I need to hook and HDCam Deck up to my system and make a tape that way?

If I can just export a file I would like it to be of the best possible quality/least compression/etc etc.

Thanks a million for a advice or whatnot.

D. Lane

Your best bet is to perform a digital cut to the HD tape deck/camera you have and pay a company to make a HDCam copy.

Or take all your media and project on a firewire drive to a company that has a Media Composer Adrenaline HD or Symphony Nitris to use for HDCam layoff.

I dont think you can hook up an HDCAM deck to XPRO - can you? Is there an HDCAm deck that takes FW? For our HDCAM masters we output to DVCPRO100 and dub to HDCAM

ToddFather:

take all your media and project on a firewire drive to a company that has a Media Composer Adrenaline HD or Symphony Nitris to use for HDCam layoff.

I had a 90 minute project played out that way last week.  It started life on Xpress Pro, moved to MC soft when I upgraded, and on Thursday was played out from Symphony.  I took the consolidated media and project files on a WD MyBook 2 TB drive and played out from that.  There were absolutely no issues.

 Yes this last idea sounds great. We have done this too BUT we did lose some fonts and some font formatting and positioning for supers. So give yourself a few days to dot i's and cross t's