Use of an NTSC Television Set

One thing I learned years ago during production is that the Director should always be at a NTSC television set to see what the ACTUAL footage looks like during a shoot. What you see in a cam LCD screen is not what you'll see on a set. So, during all our productions, we bring a monitor to the location. As the director, I'll be referring to that monitor to see the 'composure' is what I want. Of course, editing, color correction, audio correction and other attributes are always implemented during the editing process later, but viewing an actual set is primary, in my opinion.
Back in the day, when using PrePro 1.5, I could hook up my GL2 cam via it's output to the TV and switch to INPUT 1 and watch the footage through there. Another nice thing is that I could also (then) watch the TV during the editing process, a real plus.
CS5 doesn't seem to have that capability. I hook up my GL2 to my set's INPUT1 and I can review camera footage fine, but it doesn't seem to work when I'm editing. All I get is a blue screen. Did ADOBE PrePro CS5 lose that function? I can't really rely on the native monitor (well, I guess I could), because I'd like to see my safe area as it would look on/via a DVD signal, etc.
Any fix or workaround for this dilemna, or must I now rely on the montior screen built in to CS5?
Thanks for any help
expeditionwest

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function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}Thrill Media wrote:
"You have to make choices that are unacceptable in professional editing. Apart from the annoying sync lag - which is more to do with firewire technology, you can't have desktop audio, program monitor and the external monitor working simultaneously. If you want desktop audio, the program monitor freezes.
However, you can't have any of these if you want to use the MPE!"
Not true. Maybe... if you are still using FW or something. I edit daily on my system with 2- 24" Dell Computer monitors and 1-HD NTSC monitor without sync lag or any other problems. You just need the right equipment to do so. Any card from BM or AJA, etc can acomplish this for professional editing.
My preferred method since I am now tapeless, is to use two video cards in the machine, the GTX470 for MPE playback and the second card, a lowly GeForce 7600 to drive the HD monitor.
... it's all in the cards!
If you are using two cards do you even need a BM or AJA?
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