OHCI card to External Monitor

Diego22 wrote on 1/12/2004, 4:26 AM

Thanks for all the excellent advice here AND the willingness to share it.
I wish to use an external monitor with Vegas. I have read pages 232 , 233, and 272 of the Vegas manual (PDF).
I have a Dazzle OHCI card with 2 fire wire ports.
What CABLE do I need to go Firewire1394 to Video? -TIA -Jim G

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Chienworks wrote on 1/12/2004, 4:49 AM

There isn't one. This can't be done with just a cable.

You'll use a standard firewire cable to go from your 1394 port to some sort of DV -> A/V converter (your digital camcorder will probably do fine for this), and then an ordinary RCA (for composite) or S-Video cable to go from the converter to a television.

farss wrote on 1/12/2004, 6:30 AM

Well actually you CAN go 1394 to an external monitor if you're particularly weathly but for the price Sony want for a 1394 card for one of the moditors that'll take one you could buy several A/D converters that would come in handy for other things as well.

PrestonH wrote on 1/12/2004, 6:33 PM

Not to hihack this thread, but I have a question along these lines too. I download the Vegas demo because I'm considering it for 24p work. I tried connecting an OHCI compliant card to both a DV camera and DSR-11 (seperately, of course) to check NTSC playback. Both devices do passthrough. Basically, it stunk. Looks like it plays back through firewire at 12-15fps.

I checked preferences > video device. The only way it will send video out over firewire is if the "Recompress edited frames" box is checked. Video playback on the PC monitor is fine. Is this the best I can expect for NTSC monitoring via firewire?

farss wrote on 1/12/2004, 6:57 PM

I think you've gotten something wrong. Depending on PC speed with no FXs applied it should playback to f/wire at full frame rate. Check you haven't bumped the track composite level slider off 100%, very easily done and that'll cause Vegas to have to decompresse every frame. It should play back frames that have no FXs withour having the recompress switch On so I'd say something has happened.

PrestonH wrote on 1/12/2004, 8:14 PM

Finally figured it out. I'm a Canopus DVStorm user. The clips were being captured with the Canopus Codec. If I capture via Vegas or change the .AVI wrapper of the "Canopus" clip to MSDV-AVI (or AVI2) using their utility then they play back fine through the firewire out. Thanks!