Originally Posted by Ron Evans (Post 920518)

With DV one can connect up the camera from the PC with 1394 ( iLink) cable, connect a TV to the analogue out of the camera and monitor while editing. This cannot be done with HDV, there is no pass thought like this for HDV. The output must be rendered in most of the editing programs to create a new file and then exported. So preview must be done on the PC monitor or specialized hardware( Matrox, Canopus etc) to a HD monitor. This is also true for AVCHD. So the old way of monitoring is not possible.

Ron Evans