Re: Pushing video out firewire to TV

hhk wrote:
Mike Kujbida wrote:

hhk wrote:

Need some a/v experts here.

I have a Windows laptop with a firewire port. I also have a Canopus
ADVC-100 DV Converter that I normally use to capture analog video. The
converter is recognized as a digital video device by my computer and it
gets ready to capture video. But, I want to go the other way - ie. I
want to play video on my computer and have it pushed out the firewire to
my converter and through to my TV.

I imported my video to Windows Movie Maker and then I tried "saving to
DV camera". I figured that would send the video out the RCA cables to
my TV.

I get audio but for video, all I get is the colour bars on the screen.
I'm probably not using my software correctly.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?




Sure can. From the ADVC 100 manual:

Color Bar output
Press the Input Select button for three seconds to output color bars
from the analog output. Press the select button again to resume analog
output. Turning the unit off also returns it to normal output mode.

Mike


Well, that wasn't much of a challenge was it? When in doubt, RTFM.

Okay, so my follow-up question - is there an easier way to do this? With my Movie Maker method, I'm importing the video, moving the clips to the timeline, exporting to DV. Is there a way to just play an AVI video straight out through firewire?

Additional info: I did find a program that does exactly what I want but it works only for Mac. It's called SimpleVideoOut X
.

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