• Adobe After Effects

  Video Card to Broadcast Monitor

  Posted by Terry Hahin on July 28, 2005 at 4:08 am

  Hi,
  I just bought a broadcast monitor and have been using the firewire port on my computer into a cheap camera, then s-video cable into the monitor. Seems to work just fine but I was wondering if people had suggestions as to what is the best approach. I’ve looked at some of the video cards like the new Kona 2, and I can’t really afford it.

  I’ve looked at the Radeon All in Wonder 8500, possible on my budget on ebay.

  I guess my question is that I still don’t completely understand the process involved in sending video signal from a program like after effects or FCP into a brodcast monitor. Does anyone know of somehwere I could read up on the subject?

  Any advice is always apreciated,
  Terry

  Joeythedog replied 20 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Joeythedog

  July 28, 2005 at 5:32 am

  Hey Terry,

  Ati Radeon 9800 pro card has s-vhs out. You could get a component adapter or just use the S-video to composite adapter that comes with it. Might as well get down and dirty with S-VHS to composite RCA plug/cable to a good ol’ TV to see what the consumer will see. Plus if your a gamer you’ll love the card. There are probably many video cards out there with S-vhs out.

  Dizzy Dog
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  Mike Smith

  July 28, 2005 at 8:43 am

  BlackMagic Design have some cheap Decklink cards with broadcast video out on various conectors (component, SDI) which should plug into your broadcast monitor.
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  Dwaynne

  July 28, 2005 at 12:10 pm

  Hi Joey. I am a newbie to the broadcast world, trying to move into it from a Flash animation/web design background. Could you breakdown what you just said in that post? All I have are an s-video cable, an s-video out port on my card and RCA input on my television. Is there any way I can do stuff in AE and see the result on the TV? I know it’s a simple question, but I need all the help I can get.
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  Joeythedog

  July 29, 2005 at 1:57 am

  Hi Dwaynne,

  My video card is a ATI Radeon 9800 pro. It has a s-video (SVHS) output jack. Along with the card came an adapter that plugs into the svhs jack.
  The other end of this jack is an rca female plugin; So you can take an RCA patch cord and plug one end right into adapter and the other end into the video rca in jack on most TV sets.

  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

  JTD

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