Using Laptop as Firewire Monitor?

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Is it possible to use a laptop as an external firewire monitor to
preview editing projects? This would be indispensable. Any help would
be appreciated.

Peace,
RetroMan

 

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It depends on what the "editing project" is, hardware wise. If the
thing at the opposite end of the firewire from the laptop will
identify itself to the OS in the laptop as a DV source, that will
work.

"RetroMan" <google@retronetworks.com> wrote:

>Is it possible to use a laptop as an external firewire monitor to
>preview editing projects? This would be indispensable. Any help would
>be appreciated.
>
>Peace,
>RetroMan

 

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On 12 Feb 2005 15:13:12 -0800, "RetroMan" <google@retronetworks.com>
wrote:

>Is it possible to use a laptop as an external firewire monitor to
>preview editing projects? This would be indispensable. Any help would
>be appreciated.

Have a look into Serious Magic's DV-Rack. You can download a demo and
play with it, so that should give you an idea. It has built-in WFM,
vectorscope, programmable zebra, audio-monitor, alarms for
overexposure and sound-distortion and heaps more. I tried it on my
main system, just out of curiosity, but it screams for a laptop.
(note to self: now, if I only hadn't upgraded my VAIO to XP, I would
still have a functioning firewire-port )

http://www.seriousmagic.com/dvrack.cfm

cheers

-martin-

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