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Then you're not seeing what your project really looks like. You're not seeing differences in color, the interlace and color coding artifacts, and the image overscan. And working with non-square pixels on a square pixel computer monitor means your image is always stretched or squashed. Being able to see your project previewed on a real NTSC or PAL video monitor lets you work accurately and more quickly.
Echo Fire displays the current After Effects composition or Photoshop document on your NTSC or PAL video monitor, letting you see how your artwork really looks.
FireWire/DV, Uncompressed Video, and Everything In-Between
Choose the video output that fits your needs, whether the FireWire ports built into your Macintosh or an uncompressed video card. Echo Fire can connect your computer to your video monitor via a camcorder or FireWire converter box, giving you an inexpensive video interface that doesn't need another PCI slot. Plus, it also supports a wide variety of other video output boards, including AJA Io and Kona, Digital Voodoo D1 Desktop, Media 100, and Blackmagic Design DeckLink.
FireWire Video Output
Echo Fire connects your computer to your video monitor using a standard OHCI-compliant FireWire interface and your camcorder, VTR, or FireWire-to-video converter, giving you an inexpensive video interface that doesn't need another PCI slot.
Realtime Video Previews in Adobe After Effects
Echo Fire's After Effects video previews include realtime playback, giving designers the ability to see exactly what their work looks like on video without the need to render separate movie files. Because they're disk-based, previews can be of virtually unlimited length, rather than being limited by available RAM. Previews also include audio, making it easy to check for proper audio/video synchronization.
Clipboard Previewing
Echo Fire 2.1 provides video previewing of the current clipboard contents. Select an image in your favorite application, do a command-C to copy it to the clipboard, and you have a video preview via Echo Fire! Virtually all applications support clipboard operations, so you now have video previews virtually everywhere, including 3-D applications, painting programs, etc. (Available under OS X only.)
Echo Fire Feature List- Displays video previews via FireWire (IEEE-1394/iLink) and other video output boards.
- Displays the current comp (AE) or document (PS).
- Realtime video previews in After Effects, with audio.
- Handles 4:3, 16:9, and 14:9 aspect ratios.
- Can overlay waveform monitor, vectorscope, safe title and action areas, and test patterns on the video preview.
- Drag and drop video playback to FireWire. Includes timecode display and VTR-style playback control, as well as the ability to display still images. (Mac)
- Screen previewer outputs Mac desktop to video.
- Exports DV (video and audio) to FireWire from QuickTime Player. (Mac OS 9 only.)
- Video-to-FireWire routing allows any application that can play QuickTime movies to play DV movies out the FireWire, including DigiDesign ProTools and Logic Audio. (Mac OS 9/QT 5 only.)
- Video color picker lets you preview your color choice on the video monitor and automatically "legalize" chosen colors for broadcast use.
- Available in Photoshop (under OS X) or system wide (under OS 9).
- Compatible with NTSC and PAL.
- Includes 60-page User's Guide in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
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