Hooking Up External Monitor

woolbrig wrote on 5/13/2008, 9:16 AM

I just orderd the JVC TM-H150CGU monitor and was wondering about the best approach to hooking it up.

I have an old Canon Optura 20 with s-video. Would this camera work ok for hooking up the monitor?

Does the camea actually do anything or is it simply passing through the signal?

I do most of my edting in 16:9.

Thanks,
Joe

Comments

baysidebas wrote on 5/13/2008, 9:34 AM

First of all, congratulations! picked one up myself this past Sunday and, so far, it has lived up to my expectations. What you need the camera to do, is to accept a firewire input and output composite or SVideo. I can't give you the answer to that as I'm not familiar with that camera. What I use is a Canopus ADVC-300 that is usually used to convert composite video to digital. Good thing is that it's a bi-directional device, and for the purpose of supplying video to the monitor, it can't be beat.

And remember that you will have to specify in Options/Preferences/Preview Device the OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394/DV device for this to work. Then, when you're ready to monitor your video, click on the preview on external monitor button on the upper left of your preview window, or just press ALT-SHFT-4.