Viewing HDV on external monitor while editing

[Shane Ross]

#25 HDV external Monitor Viewing

Shane’s Stock Answer #25 – HDV external Monitor Viewing

To view HDV on an external monitor you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink or AJA offer. They will both play out HDV in real time. The catch is that you cannot view this on a regular TV or NTSC monitor. Since this is HD, an HD monitor will be needed.

HDV cannot be played out of FCP via Firewire because it’s Long GOP structure is too taxing on your processors to spare the system resources needed to drive an external monitor.

Shane

Shane Ross
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[Pfrederick]

Actually I have the Kona LH card and I can send a downconverted SD signal, anamorphic or 4×3 LTBX, to an SD monitor. I highly recomend the Kona LH card. It works great with HDV.