TV monitor for editing

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Passerelle

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I am trying to hook up a TV monitor to my computer for editing purposes. I bought a small HDTV and hooked it up with a S-video cable to my video card hoping to view what I see on my program monitor (in Adobe Premiere) on the TV screen. I tried video 1, 2 and 3, but nothing is happening. What am I missing here? Can somebody help me resolve that problem? It would be greatly appreciated !
 
No I never did that. I will look into it but have to research it before. If its not too much to tell me what to do it will help a lot. I prefer solving the problems myself than having to call a technician every time I have a problem...

Thank you very much
 
Even if you get the video card output to work, it's not going to show just the monitor window on the TV -- it's going to show everything that displays on your computer monitor.

To get monitor window output only, you're going to need to interface the PC with the TV via some sort of firewire device. Most of us use a cheap MiniDV camcorder as that interface, but there are dedicated digital-to-analog converters that will also do the trick. The advantage of the MiniDV camcorder is it also doubles as an inexpensive MiniDV deck for capturing your tapes to the computer, so you don't have to wear out the heads on your expensive camera.
 
If you're in windows, right click on the desktop and go to "Properties"

Then go to the "Settings" tab.

From within that tab (you may have to click on "Advanced") you'll see options to select the outputs on your video card.

If I were you, I'd tell Windows to "stretch" your computer screen across both outputs, rather than mirroring them. Leave your computer display as the primary display.

Then I think you can undock the program window in Premiere and drag it over to the second monitor (you may need to actually adjust Premiere to fit over both screens). I'm just getting my second monitor today or tomorrow so I've not had a chance yet to experiment with the options for a two-screen setup in Premiere, but I imagine what I've outlined above would work.
 
No matter what you need to be sure that your computer is set up to use two monitors. There are plenty of tutorials online on how to set up dual monitors with all different video cards. Just Google it. There is no real reason to spend extra money on additional hardware.
 
Passerelle said:
'Have you made sure that your video card is setup to use the S-video port'

How do I check that ?
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By doing this...

davbeisner said:
If you're in windows, right click on the desktop and go to "Properties"

Then go to the "Settings" tab.

From within that tab (you may have to click on "Advanced") you'll see options to select the outputs on your video card.
Click to expand...

And I double checked and yes, you can either undock your Premiere program window and drag it over, or you can also click the dropdown menu on the program window and tell it to go to another monitor.
 
I have the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS.

When I right click the desktop (windows Vista) I don't have properties, but I can see 'NVIDIA control panel' with only the computer's monitor showing up... I went into the 'Display settings' (right click on desktop > personalize > display settings) and when I try to put a check mark into the 'extend the desktop onto this monitor' and put 'apply' it refuses to do so....

I still have the s-video connected to small HDTV. Maybe I should get another connection or another graphics card? On my NVIDIA GeForce card, I have two DVI connections and one S-video connection. On the small HDTV I have one S-video connection and 15 RCA jacks. That's it.

Thank you for your input. Greatly appreciated!
 
Well have you set dual monitors up in the Nvidia Control Panel. This is where you can set if you want the 2nd display to mirror (the same image displays on both screens) or extend (or something like that). If for some reason you can not get this to work it may be worth it to hook your TV up with the other DVI port. If your TV doesnt have a DVI port, it will still most likely have a HDMI port. In either case get a cable from monoprice.com (the stuff in the store is way too expensive). It you still cant figure this out let me know (you shouldn't need to hook it up via DVI/HDMI, but it would be capable of sending HD if you need it)
 
Had to return the HDTV. Not enough hook ups on it. Thanks to you all, I am better informed when I will buy the new editing computer and a new HDTV. For now I think I will just burn on DVD to see what it will looks like on a TV monitor. Thanks toolmodel. I will try your solution later on this autumn.
 
I definitely do not recommend this setting to judge color or other serious thing.

Use a camera or a digital transcoder insteas hooked to a good monitor
 
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