Camera monitoring
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:39 pm
I bought a small monitor for our EVI-D70 camera; now I realize that if I'm going to control it with the laptop I should just monitor it with the laptop as well. Apparently some are having trouble with the capture cards but the Roxio package seems to be working OK. But a search on the internet yields plenty of issues with the hardware in the Roxio package. Has anyone here had a problem with one?
I haven't seen a consensus recommendation for a software video mixer yet; otherwise I would get the hardware recommended for it.
Is a distribution amplifier recommended for the 100+ foot run from the camera to the A/V cabinet? If so, I can just use it to give me another output for my monitor and get a PC input later. Unfortunately the only monitor I could find doesn't have an S-video input. However, a web search yields cheap S-video to composite cables; I didn't know such a thing was possible. I'm not sure what I can get by Saturday but we'll see.
I haven't seen a consensus recommendation for a software video mixer yet; otherwise I would get the hardware recommended for it.
Is a distribution amplifier recommended for the 100+ foot run from the camera to the A/V cabinet? If so, I can just use it to give me another output for my monitor and get a PC input later. Unfortunately the only monitor I could find doesn't have an S-video input. However, a web search yields cheap S-video to composite cables; I didn't know such a thing was possible. I'm not sure what I can get by Saturday but we'll see.