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Connecting the camera to a monitor with an HDMI cable

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Connecting the camera to a monitor with an HDMI cable

These days most computers have an HDMI port. So, you could take a cable like this and actually connect it to your computer and send out a high quality digital signal. Now, even if you don't have an HDMI port, it's not a big deal. You'll be able to use something like a display port to HDMI adapter or a mini display board to HDMI adapter and that's going to let you make a nice digital connection from the computer. To a television set. Now, pretty straightforward. I'm just going to take this directly into the side of my computer. And I have the other end running into an HDMI port. And you see, it takes a second to connect, thinks for a minute, and then it should find a signal. There we go. And remember, using your system preferences, you can often adjust, so just go under something like Displays or your Control Panel and choose a resolution like 720p or 1080i, depending on the monitor you have connected. In my case, I've got this connected to an adapter from AJA because we're doing an on…

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