update: i installed pro app support 4.0 and restarted fcp and now everything works fine, auto record and all.

also in the HD workflow pdf in the help menu, fcp says you can conform the timeline by selecting everything in the render all menu etc and when you render it will conform the mpeg 2 and "reduce time waiting when you print to tape"

same here!
this seems to be the exact same issue I'm having... the help has been amazing so far, and I'd love to peg this down...

[QUOTE=Austin Meyers;683153]i can't get the camera to say "hdv in", i have occasionally gotten it to see the stream but it's showing it as "dv in" can anyone list the specs end to end on how to get it captured back to tape in hdv? i've used the firewire hdv and basic varieties, i've worked through everything posted above, and still nothing... i must be missing something in the cam setup or the fcp setup.
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I too have similar problem in the beginning. It seems, that camera set the mode (DV or HDV) regarding the current tape recording. If you have cassete with old DV recording it will set to DV. My simple solution is recording a few seconds in normal HDV mode, and camera will set to HDV IN. It accept's then HDV stream from NLE. I guess, NLE can't (or at least in my case) directly change camera mode between DV and HDV.