Adobe Premiere video-out?

[max sideburn]

Is there any way with a standard setup to allow me to have the Adobe Premiere "monitor" window output to a TV? We do this at my work to see what our work will look like on a television and it would be most helpful.

The only thing I can think of for putting the video out though would be the s-video out on my nVidia card, or maybe it's DVI out.

[edDV]

The display card S-Video out is arbitrary and not color accurate for monitoring.

Premiere supports monitoring over IEEE-1394 and has since version 5.1. You need a DV camcorder or bidirectional DV converter (e.g. Canopus ADVC-100) to hardware decode the DV stream and feed S-Video to your TV. This will be an accurate representation of what the encoder will see at its input. Calibrate the TV to a DV format color bar.

All this is explained in the help files under monitoring. To test your calibration, burn a test DVD and compare the result at the TV.

Higher end SDI cards usually provide SDI to analog monitoring.

[Guiboche]

Method 1:
You can hook up a DV Camera through firewire. Tell Premiere to "Play on DV Hardware." Set up your DV camera in play/edit mode. Hook TV out (usually through RCA) from your DV camera to a TV set.

Method 2:
You actually have DV hardware installed. Not a graphics card, but a DV hardware controller (such as Matrox RTX100). Those usually have all the outputs you need to send the signal out to a television.

Please keep in mind that sending TV out through your graphic card isn't actually the correct solution. It might work, but there is no guarantee that the colour space and interlacing is correct. Especially if you do a TV out of your desktop. This does work, but is 100% wrong for true native NTSC video out.

Also, some graphics cards do offer 100% NTSC video out if they support it. That is, when a DV avi format is detected, the graphics card will automatically send true native NTSC to it's outputs. Even if you can do this, it's likely Premiere won't be able to talk to your graphics card to do this.

[max sideburn]

cool thanks guys. I think I will just use a camcorder to do the DV out to my tv.