Outputting Directly to a DV Device
You can output DV 25 sequences directly to a DV device. This lets you output without any loss due to compression and decompression.
To output directly to a DV device:
1.  Select the DV 25 sequence you want to output.
2.  Render all effects.
3.  Select Clip > Digital Cut.
The Digital Cut tool opens.
4.  Select Digital Cut Native.
  Select Digital Cut Native only if you are outputting a DV 25 sequence with all effects rendered.
5.  Click the Video Effect Safe Mode button (selected by default) to allow the system to notify you that an effect needs to be rendered.
During a digital cut, real-time effects can drop frames. To eliminate the chance of dropping frames, it's best to render the real-time effects that might drop frames. The Video Effect Safe Mode option analyzes and identifies real-time effects that might cause dropped frames during the digital cut and allows you to render them. After all the real-time effects are rendered, the system automatically initiates the digital cut.
6.  Select other Digital Cut options as described in Using the Digital Cut Tool.
7.  Perform the digital cut.

Some features described in Help are available only in Avid Xpress Pro or Avid Xpress DV. For more information about Avid Free DV go to
www.avid.com.