Lost NTSC Video Output

I've been down this road before but don't remember the answer. Can't get video NTSC Firewire 720x480 output. My firewire output is connected to Canopus converter > video monitor. When I select View > Video Out > NTSC I get a "general error." I haven't changed the set up of the converter or monitor. Last time this happened the solution was as simple as changing canvas view to "fit to window." I must not remember correctly because that ain't doin' it.

Not at all sure if this is right, but you could try View>All Frames... that is how to make sure stuff goes out to Tape.
Just a guess.
~Luke

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GEAR: I have a G4 dual 1.25 (silver double doors) with an ADC and DVI output in the back.
OBJECTIVE: I need to go from that to an NTSC TV so I can see what my edits look like.
NOT SURE: I have seen the Apple adapter (http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/7200505/wo/0K4TK pkMz7f922WszZYxFQMUy31/1.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.2.3) but it says it is for the MAC mini and the G5 only... does that mean it won't work for me?
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Firewire to a DV/analog converter to your NTSC monitor. The only way for DV.
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∏

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Hey Stevan,
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Of course its depending on your country where you life but you can find this option in display driver options.
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Thank you for your answer. I knew this helpful article.
So the first solution is to use composite video signal.
But, as I would like to use the high quality component video signal to feed the S-Video input of the TV, my question is now :
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In Extended Desktop Mode (Mirroring Off) you can drag the QuickTime video to the external TV monitor and then Enter Full Screen.
{quote:}Can I do that on quicktime? have the controls and playlist and modify it during playback in main monitor and video playback ion my TV?{quote}
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Head over to the iMovie or Pro Applications: Video sections of the forum and check around there to see if one of those will suit your needs.
http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa?categoryID=1
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Sorry,
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Bad Video Output -- with example

I've seen several people complain about the poor quality of the video output from FCE and this is something I've experienced myself so I'd like to find a solution. When people make these posts about quality, the usual response is that there must be some sort of user error or bad input. If that's the case, then the "correct" way to convert video remains a mystery to many of us. Let's shine some light on that dark corner...
To wit, here's a sample screen capture showing the original .MOV file from my camera on the left and the output of FCE on the right:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5215575
Clearly something went awry in the conversion process, but it's nothing I've done explicitly. Perhaps you can help me identify what did go wrong, why it went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future.
First some details.
The original input file (on the left) came from a Canon SD700-IS camera and was put through a File|Save As process in Quicktime Pro to make it a proper .MOV file. Viewing the video clip within FCE, it looks just as good as the source version.
But once I've exported the entire sequence to a file, the video looks kinda crappy -- like in the frame on the right. Part of the issue is stretching the source 640x480 to NTSC 720x480, but beyond that it looks like the compression was done very poorly. Things are just a LOT blurrier and there's very little contrast.
The bottom line is -- what are some of us just simply not seeing.
Cheers,
ALF
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Hopefully this helps explain my understanding better...
I'm familiar with MJPG, but the video is not MJPG when I put it into FCE. The picture on the left has already been converted by Quicktime.
While MJPG is a series of JPG images and each individual JPG image is compressed slightly (I don't do lots of compression in the camera), the point I was making is that each of these frames is a key frame. When QT or FCE or anything else converts such a file it has a WEALTH of information to use and therefore image quality shouldn't degrade.
One of the things I don't understand is the insistence that upsampling is occurring. While FCE may indeed be upsampling, it SHOULD NOT BE because I've centered the input video within the 720x480 DV frame. No scaling need occur.
This is akin to making something smaller than 720x480 in After Effects, for example, and importing to FCE as an overlay for something. There should be no quality degradtion because that's not being scaled to 720x480 either -- it's just a small part of the screen.
There also isn't an issue with frame rate because, as I mentioned, the source video is 30fps. Any suggestion otherwise is assuming 15fps for the source video, which is incorrect.
The only thing that leaves as a factor is interlacing -- the source video is most certainly not interlaced. So as I understand things right now, the loss in video quality I've seen is due to artifacts introduced by interlacing and delta-compression. Because I've seen lots of example of delta compression which don't look this bad, I'm hoping there's some way I can tweak the amount of compression or something. Not much I can do about interlacing, though.
As to the camcorder issue, the reason I said it's not germane is because it's the data that's important rather than where it came from. I could just as easily get a 640x480 Quicktime, AVI, or MPEG file as source and see the same type of degradation (I've done it).
The problem is how FCE treats 640x480 (or anything less than 720x480) video. By default it does indeed upscale to fill the full DV frame. But it also provides the ability to drop smaller video onto part of the frame as well as the ability to scale video within the frame.
So if FCE is putting my 640x480 video through a scaling process to place it as a centered 640x480 image in the 720x480 frame, and scaling that again for DVD out put, then yeah I can see where degradation would occur. I just don't believe it should be doing that first scaling.
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ALF

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