Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 167)

Chapter 13 External Video Monitoring 167
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To connect an external NTSC or PAL monitor to your edit system to monitor
DV video while you edit:
1 Connect a FireWire cable between a FireWire port on your computer and the FireWire
port on your DV device.
2 Connect the analog video outputs of the DV device to an external video monitor.
Depending on the device, the video output may be a composite or S-Video signal,
using either an RCA, BNC, or S-Video connector.
Using Digital Cinema Desktop Preview
The Digital Cinema Desktop Preview feature allows you to preview your video using
any available computer display connected to an AGP graphics card, or other cards such
as PCI Express and PCI-X. (Displays connected to a PCI graphics card cannot be used by
Digital Cinema Desktop Preview.) If you have two computer displays, one can be used
to view the Final Cut Express interface and the Finder while the other can be used as a
dedicated video monitor. For Final Cut Express portable systems and other single-
display systems, you can switch between the user interface and the Digital Cinema
Desktop Preview display.
Important: If you are doing critical online editing or color correction, you should use an
external CRT broadcast monitor that supports the format you are editing (NTSC, PAL,
HD, and so on), especially when your final output is interlaced video.
USB or
FireWire
Amplified speakers
Computer Display
(Final Cut Express)
Display
(Digital Cinema Desktop Preview)
Audio interface
Graphics
card