Decklink to Y/C (S-Vid)? Any low cost converters?

I'm not entirely sure of this and someone who knows can say for certain, but ...
If one were to 'combine' the R-Y and B-Y outs into one and take the Y as one and then 'shoe-horn' these into a S-video jack. Y as Y and R-Y and B-y combined into one as C you should have Y/C.

Right? Again, I'm not sure. In fact I'm not even sure if tryong this out would damage your SP card.

Neil

[Jeff Bernstein] "And where would the green come from? "

FYI - It is possible to have green if you have red and blue available, how do you think Y, Y-"R" and Y-"B" work?

and Neil you do have some interesting theory but it's not gonna happen like that. Think of S-video more like native television format. Basically instead of routing CVBS on a single carrier, what you have is Luminance (VBS) and Croma (C - colour information) seperately. This way croma doesn't have to piggy back Y (luma), which also means that Y gets full bandwidth. and we get better sharper video and better colours.

Digital motion, don't even bother to convert composite to Y/C, you will still be looking at composite quality. Best would be to have component monitor.

Cheers
vB

We use these, and they work great!
http://www.svideo.com/svideorca.html

Thanks for the input guys- but a few questions for Mike and Jeremy. Mike- which converters specifically do you refer to on your weblink? All I really see are S to RCA adapters. And Jeremy, how exactly does this cable interface with the decklink? The Y (of Y/C) I assume will come from the Decklink Y, but what about the chroma? How do I get the Y-B and Y-R signals combined?

For a little more clarification- again what I am trying to accomplish is Component Y, Y-R, Y-B OUTPUT from the decklink to S-Vid (Y/C) INPUT on my 9" pro monitor (much higher quality than using the Y cable in composite mode -which I am currently using)

Thanks!

Jon

You need to change monitors, dude.

sw