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OT: Can you use an external monitor with imovie8?
I’m trying to help someone get going with imovie 8. We had the external monitor working fine during capture though firewire to the dv camera but the signal is lost when you close the capture window.
Any one know if imovie8 allows external monitor viewing during editing?“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Not AFAIK. But you might try the Apple discussions iMovie forum.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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If you have a camera hooked up and a monitor plugged into that.. you can see the external monitor when you go back to tape.
But really no… iMovie is designed to be a consumer app… new version much much more so
If you are concerned about external monitoring… then you need to at least be thinking about FCE
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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Hey Tom… there is no iMovie forum.
I haven’t dabbled with iMovie since version 1 at which time I always considered it at par with a linear edit suite on the dv level. iMovie 8 however looks like it was designed around simplicity as was the MacBook Air.
I’ll recommend my friend download iMovie 6HD or move up to FCE. Thanks everyone.
“thou can not stir a flower without crumbling a star” ……Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Just an update to this post as I am trying this in iMovie 09. It does not seem possible. The “Viewer on Secondary Monitor” only goes to another RGB monitor hooked to the mac. You can have your camera hooked to a broadcast monitor (or whatever TV) but you can only see anything on that when you are capturing, but not editing. Too bad!
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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When I bought my TiBook 667Mhz (I was much younger) Apple give me a curious VGA (no DVI yet) to Video Composite adapter. Picture wasn’t too good, but enough to plug it in a TV.
This is the one you need for DVI to Video:https://store.apple.com/us/product/M9267G/A
rafael -
that’s a strange little device…doubt any of the newer macs support it, as it looks to be dependant on the display driver (used at the time) with a limitation to 1024×768…interesting bit of history however:)
I was going to post this on yesterday’s thread, but heck I’m here and the internet in this village is really slow…so can u describe your color correction/calibration technique using a TV hooked up to a camera hooked up to FCP? U mentioned that u’ve been doing that a lot…thx!!! u can also send me an email at herojig asterick gmail justonedot com.
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Hi Jiggy,
You use the Detect Display and set the Display Preferences.
It will works like any other second monitor.
What you get out of the RCA is standard PAL or NTSC, depending of the TV.Correcting in a TV is the “poor man correction” but better than nothing.
Try to adjust the TV with some bars.
Sure you can not do it like with a monitor, but try your best.
What I used to do is to play DVDs that I made in different TVs and monitors.
This way you discover how your TV is biassed.
My Trinitron was (is) very contrasted and saturated.
If I tried to get a smooth and less punchy picture, I new it would look washed in other TV-computer.
A cheap TV also helps a lot when you are composing graphics, subtitles etc.
Cheers,
Rafael -
Yes Rafael, I get that, but the TV has no bars like a real monitor. Or do you mean just adjust the settings on the TV to the bars…I wish I could find a tut on this poorman’s correction! Anyway, my plan was to just fire up Color 1.5 and be able to see the output on the TV, but alas, all the options to send the picture via firewire to my camera/TV setup are grayed out, unlike in FCP. Arg… but thx!!!
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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[Jiggy Gaton] “Yes Rafael, I get that, but the TV has no bars like a real monitor”
Monitors have no bars.
Cameras yes. Use your camera bars or render and play some bars in FC.[Jiggy Gaton] ” all the options to send the picture via firewire to my camera/TV setup are grayed out, unlike in FCP.”
Then you have to find out why.
You must have something set wrong.
Is your camera connected when you start FC?
Have you set FW Playback in the A/V Preferences?
Rafael
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