Questing on outputting to TV from video card?

reflex

reflex

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Right now I just hooked up my camera through firewire and then out of my cam to the TV for final output viewing. I was wondering if there is a way to bypass all of that and just go out from the card to the tv? I know a lot of video cards have other outputs. My current card is a GeForce 5200 i believe and i'm running two monitors. There is a small black round output in the middle of them but I dont know what it is. It ISN'T an S video out put... but it looks like the one one this video card... ( hard to see from the picture but it's the best I could find...)
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What is this output? It's just got a good number of tiny holes but no slot for that little black rectangle 'peg' inthe S video cables. I was thinking that I could run out of there, if there is an adapter, to the input of my tv switcher where I have RCA inputs and well as S video. I'm not going to buy another video card with a specific S video out right now. Anyone know what that plug is for and will it work as an output to a third device ( tv ) while running my two monitors now? :huh:
 
They use a non-standard connector. The card should have brought a short cable that connects to that plug and outputs S-video on the other side.
 
I had an FX5200 and that should be a standard S-Video connector. I really didn't like how it worked with Nvidia's drivers, and I felt the quality of the signal was poor. IMO it's much better to output a signal via firewire to your cam out to TV via S-video, like you're doing it now. You can only output to two displays at once with that card. So it would be one computer monitor and one TV, or two computer monitors.
 
This type of video card does not provide a solution for a rendered output from a NLE, rather it is a method for emulating or extending your desktop onto a TV, not the same thing at all. If you don't like using your camera, consider something like the Pyro A/V link.
 
Well, the Matrox Parhelia card has drivers for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and Lightwave. It is fairly acurate, but not necessarily true DV output for Premiere Pro. But for After Effects and Photoshop, it's great. Of course, if you don't use Premiere Pro, then that won't help.

Otherwise, if you don't want to use you're camera as an analog<->DV bridge, may I suggest a converter box such as the Canopus ADVC110, or Datavideo DAC100. That would probably be your best scenario (at about $300). It will certainly aleviate undue uptime on your camcorder.
 
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