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setting monitor to match broadcast TV standards
I’m working with footage that will be viewed via a DVD player and standard TV monitor- is there a way to set my monitor to matchregular TV settings? Using Premiere 6.5
Thanks much
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5 Replies
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No. Computer monitors and TV monitors are very different creatures.
What you can do is connect a DV device (camera, deck, or converter) to your Firewire port and hook up a TV to the device. Premiere can preview live to a DV device while you work, just set it up in the Project Settings. This will work with any deck or converter, and with most (not all) cameras, though for cameras you may have to change a setting in the menu.
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Thank you. I started doing some searches online- and found out the same thing. Do you think I need an actual NTSC monitor- or regular TV okay?
tp -
You can get by with a regular TV, as long as the picture quality is good. Always double-check your DVD on a couple of different DVD player and TV models before distributing, of course. The NTSC monitors are higher quality and provide more control, and if you’re doing work for broadcast you really ought to have one (and know how to use it, and vectorscopes, and the like).
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Thanks Timothy for your help, I appreciate it. One more quick question- I am editing a very long project- should end up around 30 minutes- using 6.5- is there a way to set the preview so that it only replays the area I am currently working on? Also, is there a way to work on sections, save them, then marry the whole thing together when I’ve completed everything? – So that I’m not pulling the whole project into the timeline everytime I sit down to work.
Thanks again for your great help!
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Use the work area bar (and the Enter key) to preview just a particular section of the timeline.
In 6.5 there’s no easy way to divide up a project. In Premiere Pro, you can have multiple timelines (sequences) per project. For 6.5, you have two options to do the same sort of thing.
1- Make a separate project for each part of the movie, then for the final, start a new project and import all of the segments in order.
2- Export each separate section to an AVI file, then assemble them later into the final project.
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