i just received a nine inch sony monitor and i have no idea how to connect it. basically I got two cables don't know what to do with it... on the top of it i have to get the project done by tomorow evening!

thanx for your help

There's three places you have to look at.

Final Cut- set the canvas and viewer to fit to window or smaller. make sure they aren't over 100% zoom.

make sure final cut is sending video out to firewire... it's in the preferences somewhere.

2- Your deck/camera- needs to be able to convert DV-->A/V out. Nearly all equipment does this.

It needs to be set to convert DV-->A/V out, not the other way around. This is a menu setting while the equipment is in VCR mode.

3- Attach the yellow RCA jack from your camcorder's A/V cable to the back of the monitor. You may need a RCA-BNC adapter for most broadcast monitors.
Or use S-video (may be called Y/C on the monitor).

thanx glen. two other question. i got two connections on the monitor: "IN A" and "IN B", on which one do i connect the yellow cable? and secondly what about the red cable isn't the one i'm supposed to get the sound back with?

ok i just connected the deck vie the s-video cable. i got the display on the monitor but i don't have fcp display neither on the cam nor on the monitor.
unfortunately since i got my boss's sh...y samsung camcorder i don't have the dv to a/v mode so i guess it's just screwed...

What version of FCP are you running, if you're running ver 5 you need to go to the view menu and set external video to all frames

i'm running with verson 3

by the way i was told that decks such as camcorders were not totally reliable and therefore calibrating with FCP is necessary. how do i calibrate with FCP?

i finally got a right deck but the calibrating part is giving a real hard time. i followed the insctuctions from the FCP manual but it doesn't add up, any trick for that?

Does this help?

http://www.videouniversity.com/tvbars2.htm

it looked damn interesting unfortunately i'm running PAL...

Hmm, is it different? FCP should be able to give you PAL color bars (under effects > video generators) and I always assumed the procedure to calibrate would be the same. I also found this which implies as much, but honestly I just don't know...

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/archive/index.php/t-544.html

Let's see if I can get Rob's attention to this thread, since that ancient one was initiated by him...

i'm not positive but i think they're different