Firewire Card Recommendation

[JoeyK25]

The firewire card I currently have is a cheapo Pinnacle card that I bought with Studio 9 software kit. It's a good card for capturing, it does the job, but I want to be able to hook up an external monitor so I can view what I'm doing on my time line in Adobe Premiere on the monitor.

Any recommendations on a card that would do this?

[blackacid]

As far as I know there is no such beast as a firewire card that has a video port on it for tv output. There are a few ways to go about doing this though. You have to have a firewire bridge to the tv.

The way I do it at the moment is to use a cheap Samsung scd77 video cam that is hooked into the firewire cable and set to playback mode. From the video cam I have the video out to the tv. I believe any video cam that has firewire on it should let you do the same thing. So far this has worked well for me but it is a little annoying having to fool with a video cam in the middle.

Now if you’re looking for a more permanent solution perhaps you should check into a canopus advc-110. This is one of the cheapest digital to analog bridges out there for adobe work. Also by the odd chance that you need to capture analog video it doubles as a capture card in adobe.

[JoeyK25]

Well on the firewire card I have it has a composit output on it, I figured that it would - in some way - have to output video through it but I have not figured it out.

[blackacid]

Well if it has video out on it adobe might let you use it. Open premiere and turn the external output on.

Depending on which version of premiere you have these instructions are just about the same for the newest version.

Directions to turn external output on....

Go Project menu > Project settings> General>
Select Playback Settings

Make sure that 'Play Video on DV Hardware' is ticked

Make sure that in Real-Time Playback settings, 'Playback on DV hardware and Desktop' is selected