Display on a PAL/NTSC (SD) monitor

It may be a silly question for you film compositing people but here we go...
We're doing a compositing for a TV advertising project and we'd like to see it on a PAL display while we're working (we have a SONY PVM series monitor).
Does SHAKE support TV output of some kind? We do it with FCP through firewire with the AJA I/O box but it seems not to be working with SHAKE.
thankyou
joan

Ah, didn't notice that. Well, one option is EchoFire:
http://www.synthetic-ap.com/products/echofire/macindex.html
It can route QuickTime movies to FireWire and I have heard of people using it with Shake, although I have not used it myself.
Other than that, all I can suggest is a Kona or DeckLink card.

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