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September 12, 2012
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External Monitoring in CS6

  • September 12, 2012
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Harm, I don't know if you remember me as I haven't been here since Premiere Pro 6.0, but I just upgraded to CS3 and now CS6.  These Adobe forums are so over-produced I can't find the correct place to post this question so I hope you will forgive me.  How do you get Premiere Pro CS6 to output to an NTSC monitor.  I was outputting to this monitor under CS3 by using a Grass Valley conterter box coming out of the system firewire, but it doesn't seem to work under CS6. 

Thanks, James

jjaeger@mecfilms.com

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    Jeff Bellune
    Jeff Bellune
    Legend
    November 19, 2012

    [moved to hardware forum]

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    Sebasvideo10677658
    Known Participant
    November 19, 2012

    James, forget about the computer's graphics card for timeline monitoring. You should still get a good one to get accelerated effects, although you are very constrained in choices by the Mac, so eventually you might want to get a good PC where you can put any card you want.

    But for displaying video from the timeline on a TV set or broadcast monitor you need a dedicated card, of which the cheapest and worst you can buy is the Blackmagic Intensity Pro, which from my own experience I would advise you to stay away from because in this case cheap equals poor quality. A good choice that has worked well for me is the Matrox Mini MXO2 Max, which is a tiny card that connects to a breakout box that also has a processor to accelerate h.264 encoding. It has HDMI and component inputs and outputs, and it sends out a proper broadcast signal, unlike a graphic card which is intended for computer use and will treat the TV set as a computer monitor. This means that basically you will not be seeing the proper colors, and if you work with interlaced footage it's even worse, as it won't display the fields properly. Besides all this, it will stutter at random places. Those are among the reasons a dedicated monitoring card exists, and any professional editing workstation has one.

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    Anonymous
    November 20, 2012

    Hi Sebasvideo, 

    I do have a PC and as I mentioned in my post to Harm, I also have the Nvidia 660Ti video card with 4 ports. It sounds like you don't advise trying to go out to a TV via this card but instead recommend a dedicated I/O card-break out box, such as the Matrox Mini MX02 Max.  I cked this out and it's about $600 or $700 dollars, lowest price on Amazon at $400 used.  I had one of Matrox's earlier I/O cards-breakout boxes previously (the DV-500) and had problems with it.  Also I note that some of the reviews on Amazon about the MX02 are not very good, also stating that Matrox's customer service is bad.  I tend to agree.  My experience with Matrox is their stuff is over-priced shit and they don't back it up with good customer service or returns.  AND they're not even IN the US.  But you also say the Black Magic card is shit.  So I put some of this back on Adobe:

    Adobe:  you're a multi-billion dollar corporation that has finally, after 10 - 15 generations, designed a very nice editing app, but getting the final product of this app, what us editors slave over, is still a bag of worms.  Use some of your clout and make this go away.

    James Jaeger 

    UlfLaursen
    UlfLaursen
    Inspiring
    November 20, 2012

    Just for the record - as far as I remember the DV500 was a Pinnacle product and not Matrox :)

    Ulf

    Harm_Millaard
    Harm_Millaard
    Inspiring
    September 12, 2012

    James,

    Of course I remember you, although I admit I can't exactly remember what we discussed at that time.

    Anyway, with CS6 it is a matter of setting the Preferences/Playback to Adobe DV, next to the regular monitors.

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    Anonymous
    September 12, 2012

    Thanks Harm.  That worked like a charm.

    I plan on getting a large 1080p digital TV soon for display.  Is there any way to hook that up to the CS6 video display without having to go through either a DV camera or a Canopus converter box? 

    James

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    Adobe Employee
    Greg Baber
    Adobe Employee
    September 13, 2012

    1080p TVs can usually be connected to most graphics card through a HDMI connector.  Then, the TV will act just like a second monitor (and you can specify that you want to use the second monitor for playback.)

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