How to monitor on TV?

[Nikolaj]

Okay... so I installed the trail version of EDIUS.

I have a NVIDIA 6600GT connected to a HDTV in clone mode.

How do I set up EDIUS to show video on my TV directly from the timeline?

That is the reason I plan to buy the real thing, so I would like to see
with my own eyes that it works...

I have searched the menues but haven't found anything so far.

Please help.

[THoff]

For starters, you can't use Clone mode, that duplicates what is on the primary display on the secondary one. Use the NVIDIA Control Panel applet to direct the hardware video overlay to the TV. The Edius preview should then automatically play on your TV.

[Nikolaj]

Thanks, it works now!
Still, I'm not sure that what I see is HD... do you know a smart way to test the output image?
I don't have a HDV video camera right now, so I can't test with my own material. Maybe if I import a high-res image and output it? It should be some sort of test pattern I guess....

[THoff]

If you register on the Canopus support site you will be able to download sample high-definition video for use with Edius. Sample material is available in NTSC, PAL, and 24P.

http://www.canopus.com/support/downl...hp?productid=0

[Nikolaj]

That's fantastic! Thank You so much!

[Nikolaj]

After watching the PAL test footage, I notice a stuttering effect during the pans and tilts. Could this be inherent in the source material (too fast shutter speed?) or is it the Geforce 6600 GT card that won't send out 25 frames per second?
If so, will investing in the Edius NX card with HD expansion solve this issue?
I wouldn't like the finished product to look like that during pans. Note that the effect is quite subtle but it is enough for me to notice and get distracted by.

Anyone noted this too? Suggestions?

[bhiga]

Granted I'm slightly biased, but as the folks here know, I do my best to see things through the customer's perspective.

Stuttering could be an overlay problem (remember that the video overlay depends on the graphics hardware) possibly related to resolution, refresh rate or simply the graphics hardware itself.

The EDIUS NX card would give you a true HD video output, meaning exactly what the result of EDIUS's processing of the video is, without any additional mysterious steps or conversions to get to HD video that a graphics card or other indirect method would use.

HD output from the graphics card overlay depends on a number of assumptions:
1) The program generating the overlay is providing full-resolution, full-framerate video data in the correct HD colorspace
2) The graphics hardware/driver is not altering the resolution, framerate or colorspace of the video data.
3) The graphics hardware is generating signal characteristics for the HD output (timings, etc).

So, to answer the unspoken questions...
Can you get decent output from the graphics hardware's HD video output?
Possibly.

Could you get a 100%-exact representation of what the processed video output is from the graphics hardware's HD video output?
Perhaps, but I wouldn't put money on it.

Will you get 100%-exactly representation of what the processed video output is from the EDIUS NX, SP, HDLE (formerly SD) or HD hardware?
Yes, that is definite.

Brandon

[THoff]

Nikolaj, there are a number of things that could cause stuttering due to CPU or I/O spikes.

Background processes like virus scanners, the Disk Indexing service, Google or MSN Desktop Search, Torrent clients, and even Task Manager can all do this. Try shutting down as many superfluous processes as possible and see if that helps.

[Nikolaj]

As to THoffs reply, let me clarify that I'm not talking about some heavy, random stuttering here. Everytime I play the Canopus test videos the "stuttering" is the same, at the same places. I have NO virus programs, MSN etc. I have no internet connection and installed Windows and Edius, nothing more.

The stuttering I see is more like the stuttering you see sometimes at the cinema of you look closely around vertical edges when the camera pans.

Meaning, the stuttering I see may just be the consequence of fast shutter speed during the recording of the material (meaning practically no motion blur).

And thank You Bhiga for a very clarifying reply. I simple way to reduce the possible explanations is if someone with Edius NX with HD expansion downloads the material in question from Canopus and sees for himself... if the stuttering (look closely!) is there, then it's probably the material itself.

But the most probable answer is Bhigas, I guess. Geforce 6600GT is an old card now.

[THoff]

If it's during pans, then it is probably judder.