Is TV-OUT a useful video-editing tool?

[grannyGeek]

I'm starting to shop for a new pc to use for video editing / authoring.

Will TV-Out give me a reasonably close idea of editing results ?

If I do color-correction, noise-removal, etc, would the TV display look quite similar to the final burned DVD,
or would I be better off to just continue doing test burns using Re-Writable disks?

I hope y'all have some advice for me.
Thanks in advance.

[edDV]

TV out on a typical display card is completely arbitrary based on overlay settings*.

Prosumer editors (AVID, FCP, Premiere, Vegas, etc.) have monitor paths over IEEE-1394 or through hardware interface cards. Vegas 6 and later have calibration procedures for LCD preview monitors.


*TV out is derived from a deinterlaced RGB reconstruction of the timeline video. The DVD MPeg2 encoder generates 16-235 referenced 4:2:0 YCbCr.

[grannyGeek]

Ah, so it sounds like something I can't really count on until I have the beast in hand.

I don't have one of the better-quality editors, and budget wouldn't allow purchase of one(don't you just hate a sulky checkbook?), so I think I would have to rely on tweaking the pc settings themselves.

Does anyone out there have a product line to recommend?

Or maybe I'll just continue to use RW disks, it only takes a few minutes to burn a quick tester.

[edDV]

It's possible to perform a crude levels calibration of the S-Video output using proper test signals and measurement equipment but color match is problematic due to different colorspace, gamma and the effects of S-Video NTSC encoding.

[grannyGeek]

For my purposes, that sounds like WAY more trouble than it's worth, with a doubtful outcome at the end of it all.

thank you so much for your advice!