Preview of Intermediate HDV files?

Vulcan wrote on 12/25/2005, 3:31 AM

I'm contemplating to buy a Philips LCD TV. Can this be used for previewing (through s-video or any of its other inputs) HDV-files that I'm editing in Vegas? The HDV-files will be captured using Cineform and transferred to intermediate avi, i.e. I'll not edit hdv in its native form.

If so, will this preview give a good understanding on how it will eventually look when I encode to DVD and play on my plasma. If this is not a good approach what (prefarably quite inexpensive) setup do you recommend?

TIA

Hans

Comments

Padre wrote on 12/25/2005, 8:20 AM

if ur GFX card is dual monitor, then yes.. it will work, V6 allows you to use your second display as a preview monitor (what better than to view HD than on a HD panel?? Even a PC monitor (which does HD resolutions and have been for almost 8yrs now) can be used for this purpose.. on top of that, V6 allows u to calibrate your colour space on this external source...

but to be honest i still find that previewing out to 1394 offers a truer colour and gamma representation of what youre seeing

Harold Brown wrote on 12/25/2005, 8:44 AM

I go out via firewire to Canopus ADVC-100 to a regular TV. A true monitor is on my shopping list for the future. But the TV gives me a very good idea of how my finsihed work will look on a TV set. The Canopus outputs color bars that I can adjust my TV too.

Vulcan wrote on 12/25/2005, 2:41 PM

Thanks for the replies.

Hans