Canvas on tele

Sorry, the "insert link" button won't respond so we'll be doing this the hard way.

You could buy a deck, like this-
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...ac=&fi=all&pn=1&ci=2129&cmpsrch=&cltp=&clsgr=
Or capture system-

http://www.aja.com/html/products_macintosh.html

http://www.matrox.com/video/products/mxo/home.cfm

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/

Basically, it'll cost you.

Yes you can ... IF your MiniDV camera is capable of accepting a DV (Firewire) signal input. Most DV cameras do.

Set your camera to the proper input (DV, Firewire iLink are all the same thing) and make sure it's not in PLAY mode. Connect a Firewire cable from your camera to your Mac. Turn on the camera and start up your Mac. Launch FCP. Set the Timeline or Viewer playhead on a clip. If you don't see the output on your camera's monitor, look in FCP's VIEW menu under External Video and make sure it's set to ALL FRAMES.

The recommended method of monitoring while you work in FCP is to connect your camera's (or other DV device's) analog outputs to a properly calibrated TV monitor. If your camera will pass through the digital signal to its analog outputs, this would be the best way to work.

-DH

-DH,
You might want to re-read the OP.

He's asking if there is a way besides using his camera to get a signal out of his Mac into his TV.


Killer_b,
You overlooked the most inexpensive solution, the Canopus ADVC110.


Lethal

LethalWolfe said:

-DH,
You might want to re-read the OP.

He's asking if there is a way besides using his camera to get a signal out of his Mac into his TV.


Killer_b,
You overlooked the most inexpensive solution, the Canopus ADVC110.


Lethal

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Well I'll be darned. I didn't even know of the new Canopus solutions. Back in the day my friend had a Canopus card for his PC, and I just always assumed they didn't offer those kind of boxes. Learned I am now.

Holy crap, this is my 500th post!

killr_b said:

Well I'll be darned. I didn't even know of the new Canopus solutions. Back in the day my friend had a Canopus card for his PC, and I just always assumed they didn't offer those kind of boxes. Learned I am now.

Holy crap, this is my 500th post!

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I used to have a Matrox RT2500 card in a PC running Premiere 6.5 I built back in '99. I remember when I started looking at FCP around '01 Matrox had a card called RTMac that provided hardware acceleration for FCP, but the thing was a buggy monster that Matrox unceremoniously stopped supporting not long there after. Not a lot of happy campters on Matrox's RTMac board...


Lethal

It's only $200 from B&H.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...9_ADVC_110_Bidirectional_Media_Converter.html

Definitely the best way to go, hence I was schooled by Lethal.

LethalWolfe said:

-DH,
You might want to re-read the OP.

He's asking if there is a way besides using his camera to get a signal out of his Mac into his TV.

Lethal

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Yep ... my mistake. I read too fast and too poorly.

-DH

Raffles said:

That's rather expensive.

So, as I understand it, it converts analog to DV and vice versa. Could I, for example, take some Hi8 tapes from my dad's seventeen year old Sony Handycam and put them on my mac?

Could this also take videos from my Motorola Comcast DVR and put them on my mac?

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Yes and Yes. Although if the handycam tapes haven't aged very well it may be difficult to get a clean signal from them. If that's the case, and you don't mind spending a little more money, you can get something like the ADVC 300 which has circuitry built into help stabilize weak analog video signals.


Lethal