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smok3
16th August 2006, 19:44
i need a little dv to composite converter, so i can preview my editing (premiere) on a tv screen, suggestions? (low price, high quality ;))

p.s i found Canopus ADVC110 and dac200 so far, both seem overpriced imho.
theReal
18th August 2006, 19:53
low price, high quality
frankly I don't think things with these combined attributes do exist... ;)

Probably the market for these kind of devices is not big enough to make the products cheaper than those you mentioned (like 179 USD for the DAC200 on the first link I clicked)
smok3
19th August 2006, 00:48
theReal, yeah, if you get any better idea, let me know (i just dont want to spend on cheap DVcam i will only use for converter and nothing else...)
Blue_MiSfit
24th August 2006, 20:35
do you have a video card that supports TV out? Use an S-Video -> Composite adaptor and rock on.

Otherwise, a cheap TV out card will take care of this problem :)

~MiSfit
smok3
24th August 2006, 21:20
what cards are compatible with premiere timeline editing?
Blue_MiSfit
25th August 2006, 00:27
I would suppose any. ATi and nVidia cards can display the hardware overlay directly to an external TV, i.e. fullscreen movie playback while working on your main monitor. I would assume that it works the same way in Premiere, but I am not sure...
theReal
26th August 2006, 18:05
Blue_MiSfit, do you need any tools to use that overlay-to-second-monitor function with ATI cards? I have an ATI Radeon 9600XT and I'd also like to use my tv as a preview in Premiere Pro if it's possible. I'd like that even better than using my camcorder's firewire because Premiere Pro 1.5 seems to lag a bit and not show frame by frame as quick as it does without firewire preview.
Blue_MiSfit
27th August 2006, 07:13
I believe the ATi Hydravision software should handle the multi monitor bit. I think it is included in the recent versions of the Catalyst drivers, so you may have it already.

Good luck
~MiSfit
theReal
27th August 2006, 20:08
AFAIK Hydravision is a seperate download - I'm gonna try it, thanks!
DrP
27th August 2006, 22:56
If you want to see correctly displayed, correctly fielded video for TV out, I think Matrox is the only consumer PC video card out that that will do the job (and only when you feed it with the correct resolution video - 720 x 576 for PAL, 720 x 480 for NTSC).

ATI etc all have TV out, but if a close look is payed to what they actually output, its less than impressive.
smok3
28th August 2006, 13:11
If you want to see correctly displayed, correctly fielded video for TV out, I think Matrox is the only consumer PC video card out that that will do the job (and only when you feed it with the correct resolution video - 720 x 576 for PAL, 720 x 480 for NTSC).

ATI etc all have TV out, but if a close look is payed to what they actually output, its less than impressive.
sure, but in the case of firewire out for preview you have to look at dv compression as well all the time..., so if there is a way to use the card i would go for it.