External Video Monitoring-In HDV

How I view my HD fotage in an external monitor for editing?
According (Help menu in FCP New features) in FCP "You can now output to external video interfaces whose settings don’t match those of
your sequence. Here are some examples of some of the possibilities:....." and the list begins.
Ive tried a few suggestion from the list no luck.
If you know what info Im missing or where I need to go for the answer, thanks
Im editing with FCP 6.0.5 Sony camcorder HYR Z7U

To view HD you need a third party card/external box to do the real time conversion to play on an external monitor.
AJA, Blackmagic and Matrox all make products that will work with FCP. They range in cost from under $300 to over $3000. Just depends on your computer and the features you need.
Oh, and you need a monitor as well.
x

Similar Messages

HT3413 can I connect my new 15" macbook pro to 2 external video monitors?

can I connect my new 15" macbook pro to 2 external video monitors?

Not without an adaptor such as those from Matrox.

External video monitor not supported?

I started to use color APP just recent and soon found out that Color does not support live preview to my external video monitor via Firewire, I have 2 devices to choose, DSR11 or a DAC 10 ( DV Converter ), firewire to Component.
I hope that Apple resolve this issue fairly quick, many color users like me that don't have an IO card like AJ Kona or Decklink, color will be useless without an external video monitor for color correction.
Any input will be appreciated.
Sigi

Because of the reduced colorspace required for DV, I'd wager it's unlikely that Color will ever be made to go out via FireWire to a DV deck or DAC.
Decklink Intensity - $249 or $399? is a potential alternative...
Patrick

External Video Monitor with iMac possible.

Dear friends,
recently i have bought one imac 21.5" mid 2010 model. i am a film maker. i make TVC s, corporate docu, docu and short films. previously i worked hiring differnt post production studios but with growing volume of work i there was need for a personal edit setup. i have FC Studio 7 installed in my imav. i wanted to connect one external video monitor to facilitate the edit work flow. 1st i bought and connected a mini dp to vga adaptor and connected my 6 series samsung lcd tv with it. but the result was not satisfactory. now the lcd tv have become the second monitor and the system was working as dual monitor system. i wanted 1 video monitor as we get in pro studios. then i bought 1 mini dp to HDMI adapotor and connected it with the lcd tv throgh HDMI cable. fantastic. system took it automatically. Now i opened FCP, set a/v display to full screen, audio out to HDMI then view>external video>full frame. and u are through. now yuo can see the time line output in the LCD tv with sync audio. cheers. any better way to calibrate the second monitor?

Thanks a lot for your help.
If i consider an old model, maybe one with a DisplayPort input (late 2009 or mid 2010 iMac), is there a chance to connect the card with the DP input with a simple cable, or to verify the compatibility? The card has a DP output but many articles say that screen flickering or blue screen is the result...
Regards,
Andrea

Frozen when view on external video monitor HELP

Hi everyone, I have just finished my biggest project in 3 months. Thankx for all your helps & I love the MULTICAM feature very much.
Now i'm on the second project. This project was shot on DigiBeta PAL.
To make it short: does anyone has a frozen picture as they play it out to the external video monitor for the uncompress 10bit file?
3months ago when I digitized in as uncompress 10bit , fcp play out to external monitor FINE, including the multicam feature.
However, since I need to work with 10cam at the same time, I have to capture in as DV (my source was DVCAM) so fcp can play all 10cam in multiclip mode. everything went perfect.
TOday, I capture my sources both NTSC & PAL, they can only play in the mac monitor but not the external video monitor. feeding out to external monitor make the clips freeze. the picture is frozen but the audio still playing.
My drives are fast enough since we had been working with these MEDEA drives for years.
thank you so much.

thankx for all your helps but I had tried all those before I post the question. I'm no newbie. It must be FCP's bug. I trashed the pref & select 8bit instead of 10bit for viewing, & it play ok for single clip. On multiclip, it shutter alittle bit. Maybe I need to reinstall fcp. Don't know yet.
thankx
JP

Setting Up an External Video Monitor

Hello All,
Fairly well versed amateur here, but still with large gaps of knowledge, as you will see. I have been working on projects that were exclusively intended to be presented on the web, but I had someone ask me to produce a commercial that will be aired on local tv. So in making my best effort towards this I want to be able to use an external video monitor to insure that the commercial looks good on tv (color correction, etc). I use Final Cut to edit on my iMac. Everything I have read says to connect my computer via Firewire to a camera or deck, then connect the camera/deck to the monitor, however my iMac has only one Firewire port and I am using that for my scratch disk. So...anyone have a suggestion to overcome this?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Marc

Firewire out to a TV only works if you are editing DV.
Having said that, firewire devices do daisy chain.
This is how to set it up on the assumption that your hard drive has two firewire ports -
• Connect your camera or dedicated DV to Analog converter via firewire to the hard drive
• Connect a TV to your DV>Analog converter
• Set up the camera or DV>Analog converter to take the DV input and output an analog signal. (read your camera manual if you've never done this before)
• Set up FCE to play the video out via firewire
Several caveats -
Unless your TV is a calibrated broadcast quality monitor, you will be guessing at colors.
You need to look at the scopes to make sure your whites and vibrant colors are within spec (ask the station for their spec sheet)
If this is public access, they have a pretty wide lattitude. If this a standard broadcast channel, the spot may get kicked back to you if it doesn't meet their more tightly controlled limits. If that's the case, you may need to find someone nearby who has an understanding of what constitutes a broadcast standard to help you.
Good luck.
x

Enable External Video Monitoring

I'm trying to output from the time line via fire wire to an external DVD recorder.
According to the info I have, I'm supposed to "enable external video monitoring."
How do I do that? Where is it in the FCE menu?

Are you sure you DVD recorder will accept input from an editing program. Most of the firewire enabled consumer ones I know of will only work with material dubbed directly from a DV tape camera.
x

External Video Monitor shows still picture but won't play

I have a sony minidv deck for external device control and a sony trinitron monitor. I am using FCP 6.0 and a imac intel core. It had been working fine, but now I can't get a playback. The monitor only shows the most recent still image of what was played. i'v replaced the firewire cord so that's not it. The deck palys dv tapes on the monitor fine. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Shane's Stock Answer #8: External Monitor Viewing
If you are working with DV, this is simple. First connect your computer to a camera or deck via firewire, Then connect the camera/deck to your TV/Monitor via RCA or S-Video.
Then start up your camera and tv, then open fcp.
Go to the View Menu, choose > External video > all frames
VIEW>Video playback should be Apple firewire NTSC (If you are using an NTSC set)
VIEW>Audio playback should be Audio follows Video
Techinially, this should send synched video to your TV
If for some reason you can't view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section.
If you are working with HDV footage, FCP 6 allows you to view this via firewire, but ONLY as downconverted DV. It won't look the best, but you can see it. To do this,
If you need to view any format other than DV at full resolution, then you need to look into capture cards. Several standard definition and high definition models are available from www.aja.com and www.decklink.com. With these options you'll need a proper monitor to view full broadcast colors, but all models allow for realtime standard definition downconvert, allowing you to view HD on an SD monitor.
The Matrox MXO is another option that is output only, but allows you to view your footage on an Apple Cinema Display at full broadcast quality.
Shane

External video monitor kills wifi network link under Windows 7

I have a 2010 15 inch Macbook Pro; when I plug in the external monitor with the display port under Mac OS Lion, I have no problem getting access to my wireless local network or any network. When I switch to Windows 7 thorugh bootcamp, I can get access without plugging in the external video cable. I plug the external monitor, it kills my airport card and no access to the wifi. I have remove the external monitor to gain access to the wireless network. Windows 7 is up-to-date and the same thing for bootcamp. Also I have a Star-tech dvi usb switch.
So what gives? Star-tech dvi switich or it a Microsoft Windows 7 issue

Maybe this will help. Notice the bullet addressing external monitors. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1365

External Video Monitor Not an Option for Simulator

In the preferences pane for simulator Playback Output options, I am only able to simulate in the simulator window. It doesn't even give me the option to select any external video devices, even when plugged in (and detectable by other programs like FCP). I've even reinstalled DVD Studio Pro 4.02 and it hasn't solved the problem. Help anyone?

Hey, Aldershot. Glad it helped.
it still baffles me that with almost all the other so called Pro Apps manage to have broadcast monitor support
The problem is that Apple is really innovating with OpenGL, and this bring a lot of benefits but also some inconveniences. Notice that Motion's frame rate falls to half when you enable video out with a Decklink, AJA or even Firewire DV. And in DVD SP you have this limitation. Looks like routing the signal from AGP to PCI is the problem.
But going out through s-video!!!! yeah lets just through all our hard work out the window.
Please don't take this as I pretenend to know it all, but you know what? IMHO, Super video is really underrated. It's much closer to Component than it is to Composite. For a lot of professionals, myself included,it wouldn't be that easy to tell Y/C appart from Component, while the difference from either to Composite is gigantic
We need to view this in true RGB space.
Actually, it is RGB What it probably isn't is YUV. But it is probably more reliable as a preview than Firewire DV, for the reasons I explained in the previous message.
I know is a compromise solution. For me, the worst part is that you either loose a second computer display or have to buy a new AGP card with a separate Super video output.
All the best.

To choose an external video monitoring mode:

I don't see any options under VIEW besides Firewire and Real Time, per
My G4 is cabled up via FireWire to my camera, which has an S-VHS cable patched into my Sony NTSC monitor.
I'm trying to view my sequence timeline on this external monitor.
"Choose View > Video Out, then choose an option from the sub menu."
I sure don't see that. I only see Video, not Video Out.
What am I missing?
Thanks!

What version of the software are you using?
The wording has changed in different versions, but it's basically the same. Real-time gives you Canvas display only. FireWire sends your single out through FireWire.

Looking to connect an external video monitor with BNC cable

I have purchased a DVI to Video adapter..and it is not being recognized by the MacPro or by FCP...what should I do to rectify this?

This one? http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9267G/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng
From the info on that page: The Apple DVI to Video Adapter is designed to work with the DVI port on the Mac Pro (with ATI X1900 XT) MacBook Pro, Mac mini and Power Mac G5 systems only.
This: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/decklink/ would hve been a more appropriate choice if your monitor has a BNC connector.

Solutions for previewing HDV via video monitors ?

I have recently been given the task of setting up a video editing suite combining:
FCP6
HVR-1500 decks
Panasonic BT-LH1700WE LCD video monitors
FX7E HDV cameras
I've read that it is not possible to preview HDV via firewire and this seems to be the case thus rendering the Video preview monitors useless via the decks at least.
My question is what would we need to get in order to get a live broadcast preview to the monitors ?
Many thanks in advance.
-matt

Ok so i've done a little research and it seems like The Matrox MXO would be the best solution for our needs.
Does anybody have any experiance with this or a similar output device ?

Video Monitors

Hey Folks,
Just wondering what most of you use for external video monitors. Just bought a Sony PVM 1954Q on ebay and was wondering if I did the right thing.... I know this has little to do with FCP specifically but this is the only forum I use...
Thanks in advance!

"ALSO: I read somewhere that even if you have component, it is better to use composite because you see what most people will see, since most people have composite signal consumer equipment. Using component might lead you into doing things that the NTSC composite signal won't reproduce well. Would you all agree with this???"
Bunkus. You should use the highest quality method of transfer available. Anything else is just a load of uninformed crap. If you're going with that thinking, I might as well get rid of my Mackie 824s and Sony PVM19 in favor of a crappy 15" RCA television that the "majority" of people watching my stuff are going to see. You want it to look as clean as possible in every step of the way, and if you're down-grading it while monitoring, you're just missing things.

External video doesn't play but only shows still frame (some times).

When trying to view a clip or sequence on my external video monitor (NTSC via firewire through Sony converter box) and only for some of my projects, I cannot get the video to play. It displays a single frame and then updates when I stop playing a clip on the desktop. I've selected "all frames" in the External video option, but I cannot get it to play real time. This only happens with certain clips or sequences. Any ideas what's up?

I've been having this same issue. I'm pretty sure it has to do with one of my sequence settings. I have no issues when I'm playing back an SD project but when I try to playback an HD project to an SD monitor I encounter thsi problem where it stays locked on the last frame I paused at. I'm using a Blackmagic Decklink Extreme HD and attempting to playback over composite.
Thanks

External Video Monitoring-In HDV

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for