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How to send After Effects (mac) video to an HDTV video monitor
Hi,
Client is buying a new Mac Intel tower and wants to be able to preview my work (as I’m doing it) the way it will look as actual HD video, on an HDTV monitor. Standard def is easy, just go ilink to DV deck, and to TV. But this is HD. How could I accomplish that, and what gear could help me? Will AE send full screen video via Blackmagic/Decklink or anything like that? Thanks for your thoughts!!
– Bill
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Yes, you want a DeckLink HD Extreme or similar and a decent video card. Have a ganders at: https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/
Bluefish 444 and AJA do similar (but more expensive products) but Blackmagic are good for most peoples’ needs.
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Well there is so much not said that I’m not sure how to help but.
Most LCD/plasma screens come with a DVI connector and can be driven by the DVI output of the computer.
Mac Pro (Intel) will run AE with Rosetta (until Adobe releases a Universal Binary, someday, sometime, we won’t say when)
so it will run slower than it could.
The cards jimmybee mentioned would work (check if component is available if no HDSDI on monitor).
How did you get the HD into AE in the first place? Deck? Monitor out through the deck.TonyTony
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Hi there, thank you for your response! I would need a Decklink card *and* a video card? What is the video card for? So to be sure, a full screen display will then be available for me in AE’s display preferences?
Again, thank you! Off to look at the Decklink extreme…
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Hi there, thanks for you reply! Well, a DVI connection would mean the plasma is just another computer monitor, and thus there would be no full screen display (like, say, what you get with an iLink video output), no?
Re: what is not said… what did I leave out?
Re: Performance… really? That’s good to know, and contrary to what the vender said. He said many programs don’t run faster on the Intel, but After Effects is one that DID run faster…
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P.S. I forgot to answer your question about how I got the HD in — HD clip movie files (captured elsewhere) are delivered to me for any rotoscoping I need to do, otherwise I generate the HD content from scratch…
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[BRussell] “Re: Performance… really? That’s good to know, and contrary to what the vender said. He said many programs don’t run faster on the Intel, but After Effects is one that DID run faster…”
There is no AE program that runs natively on an Intel chip under mac os. AE for mac on a Mac with a intel processor will run, but it will use rosetta (an emulator).
What do you mean by [BRussell] ” actual HD video, on an HDTV monitor” the HD clips you use in AE and the content you create in AE and then render out is actual HD. HD monitors can be LCD and plasma monitors. Are you talking about interlacing? Keep in mind that few viewers have an interlaced HD display device.
[BRussell] “Well, a DVI connection would mean the plasma is just another computer monitor, and thus there would be no full screen display”
Well my computer monitor is set to 1920X1200, so HD720 does not fill the screen but I see every pixel, and HD1080 is 1920X1080 so it fills my screen left to right but not quite top to bottom. Most available consumer “HDTV’s” are 1366 x 768 (or there abouts).
If there is any doubt get the decklink card and you should be more than covered.
TonyTony
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You asked, “What do you mean by ‘actual HD video, on an HDTV monitor’?”
I mean, with an output device you can, while working in AE, preview the actual video output full screen – no canvas window, no toolbars, but rather the actual true video output. Here, this is from AE 6.5’s help file:
“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).”
So that means if you don’t have an external video device, but rather only have what is effectively another computer monitor, then it seems you don’t get full screen true video preview while working. In while working in standard def in AE, I can get a full screen true video preview sent over firewire to a DV device outputing to a TV. It’s a standard function of AE. That’s what I mean! If there is a way to get full video preview on a computer monitor, great, but the preferences in AE 6.5 I have here so not give me any true full video preview options except over firewire…. but I’m doing HD, not SD. So I’m wondering if there is either a DVI device that would make such an option available, or otherwise, asking if decklink behaves the same as firewire in allowing AE to do full video output. Thanks! 🙂
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