Power Macintosh AV: How To Select Flicker Free Format

On a Power Macintosh AV system using NTSC/PAL output to a television, the Flicker Free option is disabled in the Monitors Control Panel. Why?
When using NTSC/PAL video output, you must be in 256 colors before you can use the Flicker Free option. Setting the output to Thousands or Millions of colors uses too much video RAM and will disable this option until more memory is available.

If your are digitizing movies or pictures, it is best to connect a computer monitor to the Power Macintosh's AV card, set the resolution to 640x480, and set the colors to Millions. This will produce the best results for digitizing. Use the NTSC/PAL output options for presentations or for recording.

Published Date: Feb 19, 2012