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Output Preview Monitor
After editing for years with Premiere 6.5 and the Canopus DVStorm card, I am shocked how difficult it is to get an NTSC video out preview of the composition window in After Effects, as well as how difficult it is to do the same with the program monitor in Premiere Pro CS3. How can you edit without seeing the results on an NTSC monitor? My Radeon X800 card has a SVHS/composite output but all I can get out of it is a clone of the computer monitor, looking awful, or a continuation of the monitor off to the side. My canopus card automatically ouputted Premiere’s program monitor full screen to my TV and that card is about 6 years old! Isn’t there some way without first passing thru a DV deck or camera? That seems so ridiculous!
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There are three (probably more) ways:
1. Run a firewire cable to a DV camera, as you mentioned, with component/composite outs running to the TV from the camera
2. Use a device like the Canopus ADVC110, which converts your firewire to composite outputs similar to the camera method above
3. Best option – buy the baseline Blackmagic PCI card ($299) and run its component outs to a broadcast monitor. These cards are very nice – they’re Mac/PC compatible and work with virtually any quicktime-enabled software.
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