Video from PC to TV

[jmsrickland]

Hello,

I do alot of video editing using various editing applications and after I do some editing I would like to see what the results look like. Viewing the results on the PC does not always tell me the truth because the viewing screens are too small. One time I edited out a scratch which appeared accross the picture on several frames and when I played back the edited video on the PC everything looked just fine. So I went ahead and burned the video on a DVD. Later when I played the video on the TV I could see where my editing wasn't exactly corrected and I could still see some of the scratch lines on the video. Is there a way that I could send the edited video from the PC over to my TV set so that I could see the results as it really is going to appear and thus saving me the time and trouble of pre-burning?

[redwudz]

If you have a video card that can output to your TV is one way.

[edDV]

Prosumer edit programs like Vegas and Premiere Pro allow 480i preview out the IEEE-1394 port. You use a camcorder or DV decoder like an ADVC-1xx to convert the video to analog for monitoring.

All this works great for DV format projects. I've noticed Vegas attempts to convert HDV and MPeg material to DV format monitoring on the fly. In those cases realtime playback may not be achieved by your CPU but individual frames will display accurately.

Even some consumer programs like ULead Video Studio support limited IEEE-1394 monitoring but the timeline may need to be renderd to DV format to allow this to play.

Monitoring out the video card can be highly inaccurate since overlay video settings are arbitrary. Some edit programs allow calibrated monitoring using some display cards over DVI-D to an LCD monitor. Progressive conversion in the display card is necessary for 480i/576i/1080i timelines. Consult your editor manual for calibration procedures.

[marcos316]

Hey I dont know if this will help much but if you had an HDTV most LCD's have a VGA connector. All you would have to do is connect your computer to your HD setup and you could edit using your TV.