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After Effects Monitoring
Hi!
How can one monitor their After Effects Composition on an External Monitor – either SD or HD whils one is working on it?
Which cards would do this?
Would they be good enough to judge colors for color correction?
Thanks in advance.
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3 Replies
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I use a Blackmagic Decklink SP card on my dual 2 G5, sending component signal to a Sony broadcast monitor. Yes, I color correct for broadcast on it. All their cards come highly recommended by many.
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Yes, the Decklink cards are great. They work on both Mac & PC. The HD versions offer both SD & HD previews. And read this: The SD ones (Decklink SP or Extreme) can send SD or downconverted HD/HDV to an SD monitor, how about that?
Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
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Most quality video cards will allow you to do this. As long as they have a monitor out, or even firewire out (to a Deck with outs to a monitor). If you can view your footage in your video editor on an external monitor, you should be able to find a way to do it in After Effects. I personally had to call Canopus directly and get a special plugin to add to the After Effects folder to make it work for me. There is an option you have to make sure is checked in the preferences to enable the monitor as well. I’d tell you exactly what it is but I’m rendering right now. 🙂
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