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  HVX-200 cable

  Posted by Andy Weibley on April 13, 2011 at 11:10 am

  What type of cable would I need to send a signal from an HVX 200 to a macbook pro? Just looking to use it as a monitor in certain situations.

  Thanks.

  Scott Clelland replied 15 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Noah Kadner

  April 13, 2011 at 4:58 pm

  Not sure what you’re expecting- you have Component HD and a downconverted SD signal coming out. Neither will go into a MacBook Pro straight without an analog capture device such as a Matrox MXO. I’d recommend investing in a small video production monitor for this purpose instead. Much more suitable- proper color, gamma, etc. MBP is basically useless as a monitoring device. Ingest yes, monitoring no. Marshall makes some really cheap ones.

  Noah

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  Andy Weibley

  April 13, 2011 at 7:34 pm

  Thanks. Was thinking there was a way I could see camera output on it, at least via Final Cut Pro simply to see a larger image…not so much for color accuracy, etc.
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  Steve Eisen

  April 13, 2011 at 8:12 pm

  Adobe On Location with allow you do to it via Firewire. I’ll assume you don’t have the Adobe Suite.

  I would still recommend what Noah said. It’s kinda hard lugging a computer around with your camera attached. Production monitor is very simple.

  Steve Eisen
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  Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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  Scott Clelland

  April 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm

  You can capture directly to Final Cut Pro using just a firewire cable, and this also allows you to get a preview. I don’t have my macbook at the moment so I can’t tell you the exact settings but it’s pretty simple from what I remember.

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