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Breakout boxes
Hello all,
I currently have a DV500 breakout box with Premiere 6.5. I’d like to change, but really like the fact that I can see video on a monitor while I’m editing.However, I see that my current setup is limited because if I upgrade to Pro (yeah, I’m late, hence this post), I’ll lose the capabilities of using Premiere and Pinnacle’s breakout box.
It seems to me that most breakout boxes out there come with an editing software, and I’m having difficulties identifying boxes (not too expensive) that I can use with as many softwares as I want.
Any ideas/suggestions?
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4 Replies
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Greg,
You don’t need a breakout box to see NTSC video on a monitor. Just run firewire from your PC to your camcorder and use analog out from the camcorder to your monitor. In your Playback Settings, be sure to select Desktop Video to an external device, DV 29.97i (720 X 480). If that is not selected, you won’t see anything on the monitor.
Of course, other benefits provided by the box, such as analog video in and out, won’t be there. There are workarounds for issues like that if your main goal is support of an external monitor.
Rich Baim
Adobe Certified Expert & Adobe Certified Instructor
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Richard,
thanks much for your answer! The advice you gave is to see video on the camera on a computer and TV monitor at the same time.I was wondering if this method also works if I do video editing work on my computer and would like to see the rendered version on a TV monitor as I work? In this case I don’t need the camera, and the advantage of any sort of box would be that I could link the computer to the TV, and have only the video on the TV.
Thanks!
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Greg,
The camcorder is acting as a digital to analog converter and it is in VCR mode. Firewire digital video and audio are coming in and analog is going out to the monitor. As you are editing, everything that you see in the Premiere program monitor on your computer monitor is shown full screen on the video monitor- use the yellow RCA output from the analog output cable of the camcorder. Audio can also be connected to your monitor or it can connect to a stereo amp if you want better sound- use the white and red audio outputs from the same analog out cable. What is the brand and model of your camcorder?
If you don’t want to disconnect your camcorder and then reconnect later on a regular basis, put in an inexpensive camcorder such as a Sony TRV-25 or something similar and leave it connected all the time. On one system I’m using an old Canon with a bad CCD for this purpose.
Rich Baim
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It worked perfect! Thanks very much for your time and answers!
Greg
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