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Colour Correcting/Broadcast Monitors
I was just informed through a previous post that After Effects can’t feed the comp window to a broadcast monitor. In other words, one cannot gauge colour corrections as they happen.
So how does the process normally unfold? What exactly does get fed to the monitor? Trying to get a grip on all this before investing in a monitor and card.
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[Serge Marcotte] “I was just informed through a previous post that After Effects can’t feed the comp window to a broadcast monitor. “
sure it can… if you have a video output/capture device, like a blackmagic decklink card, you just ned to set ae’s video preview preference to use that device for preview. depending on the options you choose (previews, interactions, renders) your comp will be displayed on the output of the device (most likely connected to the broadcast monitor).
sometimes, you can have issues with realtime playback with video preview enabled… i have an sd decklink card that works in 720×486 d1 standard. if i am working on a widescreen square pixel comp (864×486) then i will may not get realtime play back do to the extra scaling that the card has to do for playout… however, if i drop that square pixel comp into a widescreen d1 preset (which is 720×486) then the previews will playback in realtime.
Kevin Camp
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That’s what I was hoping to hear. Thanks for the response.
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