How can I hook up a production monitor to my laptop?

[JCVR]

I really don't know much about prdouction monitors, I got ahold of one (a sony HR trinitron BVM-8021), they cable i was given has two metalic looking ends. Is there an adapter I can buy/rent to output from my laptop and hook it up to the monitor? perhaps a PCMCIA slot converter or something that goes from firewire to the cable the monitor uses?

 

[tim_brown]

Canopus makes some excellent inexpensive devices for converting the firewire output into a composite video output and you would only need an RCA to BNC adapter for the monitor.

Tim

 

[JCVR]

anything that I could run out and pick up at a store today? I was thinking maybe i could buy a port replicator for my laptop, not too sure. What the heck is the cable for the monitor called? scan converter.... hrrrm.

 

[tim_brown]

Here's a list of external converters. Not to sure about your PCMCIA options, but maybe you can find one of these locally...http://www.synthetic-ap.com/tips/firewireconverters.html.

Almost forgot -- Almost any camcorder will perform this function as well so if you have one of those you'll just need the RCA to BNC that you can pick up at any Radio Shack.

Hope it helps.