mac desktop wont go to 720 x 540

[Jeremy Garchow]

At the moment, Photohsop CS2 does not support video out, unless it is over firewire. You can plug in a dv deck/camera to the firewire port of your G5 and then hook the deck out to your NTSC monitor.

For after effects, you simply select the video out in the preferences, in your case, Kona 720×480 dv ntsc or 720×486.

If you want to use your NTSC monitor as an extended desktop, you download and install the kona control panel and click on the control tab. Set the default KOna output to Macintosh desktop. Then, click on the format tab and set your primary video format to 525i29.97. Click on the analog video out tab and make sure that the primary radio button is checked. Also, make sure that the analog component output of your Kona is connected the the analog input of your NTSC monitor.

Does this help?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.04 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre
OS 10.4.2 <> QT 7.0.3

[Bob Flood]

yes it does

except i have photoshop cs not cs2

and i did exactly what you said, and i only get a 1280 x 720 desktop out of my kona card

and i guess thats the way it will have to be!

thanx anyway to you all

bee eph

[Jeremy Garchow]

Photoshop cs does not have video output at all so stop trying to output directly from photoshop right there.

1280×720 is not what it has to be.

DO all of the other suggested steps in my post, then go to the apple display preferences and open them. There’s a tick box that shows “Show displays in menu bar”, make sure that is on. Now, there’s a little icon in the menu bar that looks like an apple display. It should be up on the right side next to the clock. Click it and you should see list of displays and their corresponding resolutions, scroll down to the one that says “display” and choose 720×486. Now you should see a picture on your NTSC monitor. If you want to preview your photoshop you must drag the window over to your NTSC monitor. If this doesn’t work, something is screwed up and you should probably quit and go home early.

jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.04 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre
OS 10.4.2 <> QT 7.0.3

[Bob Flood]

Jeremy

i always think that going home early is the best solution 🙂

i have been trying to set the resolution from the system preferences. setting them up to show in the menu bar, as you suggest, is the only thing i have NOT tried (i thought it did not matter. thats waht i get for thinking!)

i will try that next, and as you said, i will have to drag the comp over, but thats fine as long as i can see it at SD res, not HD or HD crop or whatever.

thanx again for your patience and support

bee eph

[Olivier Jean]

Hi Bob,

i feel for you as i am in the same predicament
as you are but i’m in Pal Land.
I guess Jeremy is the closest to your answer only the Standard def
Resolution is not showing under the display option only HD res are !!
It shouldn’t best to my knowledge.
And yes you shoould be able to drag the photoshop comp over your broadcast
monitor and see your comp at native res..

i’ll keep you posted, check the AJA web site there is thread related to this question.
Whisch os and QT are you running BTW

Regards
Olivier Jean
Video Sales Consultant
Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro 5
Powermedia Systems
Sydney Australia

[Olivier Jean]

This contradicts the AJA manual page 51.

Regards
Olivier Jean
Video Sales Consultant
Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro 5
Powermedia Systems
Sydney Australia