Problem seeing Video on Tv through Camcorder

[Del Frost]

By way of an update, I just figured out that my camcorder’s firewire is “out” only & is therefore incapable of sending a signal on to the TV.

So my next option is to see if I can get my Dazzle Hollywood AV converter to do the trick. I’m pretty sure it should on paper but when I tried it earlier, I wasn’t being very methodical so I think I ought to try again.

[Shane Ross]

well. Aparently I am a one trick pony. I was going to say that perhaps your camera didn’t acctept a dvd signal. But you figured that out. But avoid Dazzle. Doesn’t work with FCP well. Get Canopus ADVC

Shane

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[Del Frost]

Well, I’m making some kind of progress but I’ve only managed to get as far as a black & white picture on the TV that isn’t moving while the video is playing.

I did that by changing my output settings to NTSC instead of PAL.

So, the camcorder tapes that I captured were all PAL. I’ve been working in PAL all the way through but if I try & output to my TV in PAL all I get is a picture made of small black & white blocks.

As soon as I change it to NTSC I get a full black & white picture that doesn’t move but just updates to the latest frame when I pause playback.

To make matters worse, my TV (a Philips set approximately 10 years old – model number 28pw6332/05) appears to be SECAM but the manual is not big on technical data so I can really get much further.

Bottom line is it doesn’t work. I give up. I’ve wasted my whole weekend on this & I’m thinking “stuff it, I’ll buy a proper monitor on Monday & create a permanent set-up I can rely on instead of all this time wasting.”

[James Vota]

I seem to be having a similar problem, though I am working with Final Cut Express HD, and I cannot seem to locate the options you spoke of here. I have the camera connected to my Intel iMac through Firewire. Then, I have the camera connected to my TV via RCA cable. I do not have any drives daisy chained, but I do have an external firewire drive attached to the iMac. It has the video files on it.

Any ideas?? I could really use some help here. Thanks.