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Video Preview. Continued.
Sorry about the new thread, but someone mentioned “DV card” in one of their replies to the thread linked below. So do I need a special card with firewire out? What we’ve been trying to use is a Pyro Firewire card with 3 firewire outs. Should the firewire out be part of the video card or something?
Bendex.
Original thread https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=867239
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A friend brought his new Miranda DV Birdge Pro over and After Effects is still giving the same error “Device type doesn’t match output mode selected”. The internal firewire card must be the problem. Or I’m doing something really stupid in After Effects.
Thank you to everyone for their input so far. Nice place you have here.
Bendex.
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Whatever internal card has the Firewire port on it (on the computer) should be OHCI-compliant.
From the AE help:
“You can preview the contents of your Layer, Footage, or Composition window on an external video monitor if you have a third-party device that facilitates this feature, such as a video digitizing card or a FireWire port (Mac OS). After Effects 6.5 also supports this feature on Windows OHCI cards. Set the Video Preview preferences to identify the device After Effects uses to display output and to specify the type of previews to display on the device.”I don’t know if your card is OHCI-compliant — you’d have to check the computer’s (or card’s) documentation.
Steve
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I connected a friend’s cheap computer to the deck using the same cabling and it worked. I was so excited. At least I know it exists now. The cheap computer has it’s firewire port built into the motherboard. It also has the same version of Avid on it so that rules that out.
The monster computer has a pyro PCI 64 card, as well as a firewire port built into the sound card. I tried them both while the other one was Disabled but still nothing. Avid still gets output with both cards though.
Looks like video preview will never happen for my computer. 🙁
Bendex.
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You should be able to get a fairly cheap Firewire OHCI compliant PCI card for your computer if you have an open PCI slot. Look on NewEgg.com, as they tend to have great descriptions and reviews of their products (not to mention great prices). I’m not affiliated with them. Just a loyal customer 🙂
But seriously, look for a cheap PCI card, but it must be OHCI-compliant. That’s what I use with my Panasonic DVX100 camera, as my computer’s motherboard didn’t come with Firewire. Then I go S-video out from the camera to a Sony PVM monitor. Works great with AE. Good luck!
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