video component cable

[Jason Ramsey]

you need to find a set of red, white and yellow cables. Otherwise known as a/v cables to plug into a/v slots. He is saying that the 3 different cables of the component cable all transmit video.
The a/v cables that we are used to are audio/video. yellow = video. the others = audio

 

[Christopher Barry]

Two days ago I was having strange component HD out results from the HVX into the Dell 2405. Sure people say the Dell is no good for monitoring, but this was static/drop outs, not the noise and crawling people refer to. Problem happened when I had a setup on a Junior Jib/Crane and a remote Pan/Tilt head. When setup as 1080i/24PA, every time I would tilt down, past horizontal, the screen would flicker and then drop out. Go back to horizontal and tilt up, all worked fine. 720p modes were fine. I did flick between AV out being 720p and 1080i setting, etc, etc, etc...

I found, when I used the HVX's remote control and entered the menu section in the camera, the HD component would come back, even when titled down. After fiddling with this for a while, I eventually had the HD component to work, without having to stay in the camera menu mode active. It was not a cable issue, I did a lot of problem solving on that aspect.

I'll do a setup again next week and see if I can reproduce the problem.

I really do not like the HVX component HD connector, it sure is sloppy/loose imo. Does anyone have an opinion or some kind of fix to improve the connector to a firm locked in setup?

 

[PIMP]

Well I tried EVERYTHING with this damn video component cable and still all i get is B and white footage. I mixxed connecting them different ways, but nothing. I own a sony trinitron broadcast monitor. And it has two hook ups for the back. One for a s video cable and one for the connection that came with the camera. I plug in the green and blue and then the green and red. nothing.

i hate to bore you guys with my problem. But is it possible some monitors are not compatible.?

 

[carlone]

Plug the SVideo cable out of the camera to your monitor.

My Sony Trinitron Broadcast monitor does NOT have component inputs. Only SVIDEO or a COMPOSITE. Yours is probably the same.

 

[THoff]

One for a s video cable and one for the connection that came with the camera.

I don't know how to make this any clearer -- just because the plug fits (the monitor has RCA jacks) doesn't mean that the monitor is compatible with component video. The symptoms you are experiencing are 100% consistent with it expecting composite video. I cannot understand why you keep insisting that there is something wrong with the cable, camera or the monitor -- this is pure and simply pilot error.

 

[Christopher Barry]

Hi THoff. Do you agree that the HVX component cable is kind of a sloppy/loose fit? Do you have any suggestions to change this with some custom cable/connector? Thanks.

 

[THoff]

Hi THoff. Do you agree that the HVX component cable is kind of a sloppy/loose fit? Do you have any suggestions to change this with some custom cable/connector? Thanks.

I haven't even used mine, it's still in the plastic bag. What I don't like about it is that the ends are RCA instead of BNC. For professional work, the latter is preferred, and anyone who wants to feed the output into a TV with RCA component input could put on BNC to RCA adapters.

 

[THoff]

But is it possible some monitors are not compatible.?

Well, in another thread you finally mentioned which monitor you have -- the Sony PVM-14L1.

As suspected, it does not have component video support. It has three BNC plugs in the back which must have led you to believe that the component video cable of the HVX200 would connect to the monitor, but the BNC plugs are in fact two BNC composite video inputs, and one BNC composite video output.

 

[ozduc]

Also that monitor is NOT Hi-def. So you would only get a signal out of the camera in 480i to display on the monitor. As someone already suggested, use either the S-video out or the "yellow" A/V composite out of the camera.

 

[Christopher Barry]

I haven't even used mine, it's still in the plastic bag. What I don't like about it is that the ends are RCA instead of BNC. For professional work, the latter is preferred, and anyone who wants to feed the output into a TV with RCA component input could put on BNC to RCA adapters.

The other end that connects to the camera is some kind of proprietor connector (or other) and has a lot of movement, whilst locking in. If I only use a tripod head with a monitor mounted to the camera or off a Noga arm, then the whole lot moves together and the cable is ok, however, on a crane and remote head, even with slack allowed for pan and tilt moves, the cable is subject to movement and varied tension. Whilst the connector is about the same size as an RS-422, I wish it could be screwed secure, instead of the sloppy clamp down. I am going to have to keep playing with this and perhaps go see an engineer. I recall another user in another thread saying that on crane use for a car TVC shoot they broke two of these cable. Thanks for feedback.