Newbie: External Monitor S-VHS or 13" TV

aldo12xu wrote on 2/28/2003, 2:56 AM

I have the video card listed below. If I want to use an NTSC monitor, do I have to go directly from the video card which has an SVHS output or can can I go through my Sony TRV T120 digital camera and out to a "regular" (non-SVHS) TV? A regular 13" TV is much cheaper than an S-VHS 13" TV.

128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX w/TV-Out

Thanks in advance,
Aldo

Comments

Caruso wrote on 2/28/2003, 3:54 AM

DV video out from Vegas is not dependent upon your video card. It is output through your firewire to your camcorder, and, from there, you may send it to the monitoring device of your choice . . . a TV with S-video in or one with composite connections . . . or, of course, you could send it to your VHS or SVHS VCR or yet another camcorder . . . wherever.

If you are in print to tape mode, audio will also flow via the firewire to your camcorder. If you are simply previewing to external monitor by playing the timeline, then only video gets transferred. In the latter case, however, you could send audio via connections from your sound card to your monitoring device (camcorder, TV set, VCR, whatever).

Hope this helps.

Caruso

Erk wrote on 2/28/2003, 11:45 AM

By the way, S-video and SVHS are two different things. Your video card has an S-video out, not SVHS. If I have it correctly, S-video is a way of carrying video signal (better than composite, not as good as component), and SVHS is a way of recording higher resolution video onto VHS tapes. I only learned this when I shopped for my SVHS VCR, which also has S-Video inputs/outputs.

G

dlesko wrote on 2/28/2003, 2:59 PM

Don't forget that the camera needs to have analog pass-through for this to work. I use a Canopus ADVC-100 for this. Works great.

-Dirk