Posted by Jack P on 12/05/06 21:36

Premier Pro 1.5 and 2.0 allow you to bust out a monitor directly from
your DV deck so that you can see program out and fairly good previews of
your edits --- with only a generic firewire card. You will need a fairly
fast P4 computer to get real-time though.









P.C. Ford wrote:
> Ok, I always say that one should have no pride when it comes to asking
> questions. Here's the proof of that:
>
> I have a crappy NTSC Monitor hooked up to my 'puter. I have only a
> firewire card.....no Storm card or any other capture card.
>
> I want to be able to see the monitor image from Premiere on the NTSC
> monitor. I can seen the footage as it being captured from deck or when
> it is being dumped back to deck. I have a Matrox G550....when I
> manipulate the graphics card controls, it does show the timeline
> monitor.....but the image shows four or so times and the aspect is
> screwed up....don't know what is screwed up. Do want to get a better
> monitor.
>
> Certainly a Storm card or whatever will have a hook-up for the NTSC
> monitor. However, as I understand it, any modern graphics card will
> allow you to run a TV monitor as well.
>
> Would like to run two computer monitors and a NTSC monitor from a
> graphics card. I believe this is possible. Right?
>
> Any suggestions for card? Am running Premiere 6 now. Will be upgrading
> to Premiere Pro 2 after the next decent payday.
>
> Any suggestions for an inexpensive NTSC monitor which could double as
> a field monitor...with overscan and blue only?
>
> Thanks in advance.

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