How To Enable Live Output?

Submitted Question:

What is necessary to send live feed of show out to the
school?  We have an RCA input to the school's channel 6, but I don't see how to
get just the video out of the computer.

Sounds like your school is all set, since you already have the RF modulator system that accepts an RCA video cable.

I also cover this in detail in chapter 8 of my Training DVD volume 1...

As long as your computer has a video card with a tv-out jack (s-video or composite yellow) you are all set.  In our case, we've got an ATI Radeon X1600 AGP model that has an s-video out.  I had to use an adaptor to convert the s-video out to a composite (RCA) so I can connect an RCA video cable between the video card and our RF moldulator that sends out our signal (on channel 6 as well).  This picture shows our video card:

Now that the cable is connected, you next tell Windows to use the TV-out jack as the "extended desktop mode".  Be sure not to confuse this with "clone mode" as that is NOT what you want to enable.  See this link for more on how to enable this.

Finally you'd launch Visual Communicator and go to the setup tab, then video.  Check the box that says fullscreen output.  And that's it!  Be sure to have the cable connected to the RF modulator or TV set, so that your computer can sense that a live video output is connected.

Again I cover this in my video training DVD on volume 1, chapter 8.  Hope that helps, let us know by leaving comments below!