[Jason Henries]

Thanks one and all for your comments.

After hours of searching the ‘net yesterday, I found the resource I was looking for… just as Mike Cohen said.

I’m building a new system for the CS4 production bundle, but not all the bits have arrived yet.

My old system is a P4 2.4GHz with an AGP GeForce FX5900 running CS3. No I/O card. You can imagine HD hurts a bit.

After finding a post here (https://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Monitor), I ran down to pick up a cheapie nVidia PCI video card to test in the old system.

I installed the PCI card, hooked up my 37″ 720P TV, and opened CS3. I set up a new project with the “Desktop” custom settings, but left everything as is native to DVCPRO HD 720/60P. I set the playback settings to output to Monitor 2.

The project opened, I imported some DVCPRO HD footy, and voila… my footage was displayed full screen on the TV.

Now for the bad part. It shows raw DVCPRO HD footage as non-native. There’s a red slice over the clip when you drop it on the timeline. It also won’t play back real-time. And rendering the slice takes FOREVER.

So, my question now is… will CS4 allow you to open a “stock” DVCPRO HD 720/60p project, and THEN change the settings to preview on a second (or in my case, 3rd) monitor??? If so, then I think this setup will work in the new system, if not… CURSES!

Anyone have experience?

Thanks!