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Grazie wrote on 4/29/2005, 2:38 AM
Good question - Ben!

I'd try Zooming from within Pan/Crop OR Track Motion and viewing this in Preview. As such there aint a way to zoom the actual Preview window .. you can go Auto or Full on each of the quality settings. Of couorse now with Vegas 6 we've got the option of making a SECOND monitor the whole Preview.

Now, somebody is going to come back and say that zooming in through P/C aint at the Pixel level . . you watch :)


Grazie

Cheesehole wrote on 4/29/2005, 4:52 AM
Thanks G,

Yeah what I really need is to be able to see the pixels that are going to end up in the final product... so P/C won't work and neither will the (awesome) new secondary monitor preview as they both employ resampling. Wish I could zoom the preview window to 200%, 400%, etc... without resampling.

Guess I'll have to hit the product suggestion page... meanwhile I'll see what kind of free magnifyer utlities are out there... or maybe NVidia's driver has something built in but I don't see anything obvious.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/29/2005, 12:49 PM
Okay here is the answer:

http://freestone-group.com/magg.htm

"Magical Glass - free computer screen magnifier"

It's really fantastic! It even comes with a plugin to display RGB / HEX values of the the pixel under the cursor. It's tiny too.
Grazie wrote on 4/29/2005, 1:03 PM
Cheese!? - You reminded me to look at the FREE XP MS Magnifier . . . you know it? - Any good? Just used it omn Preview . . . HUH! It works too ... G
Cheesehole wrote on 4/29/2005, 1:23 PM
Yeah the XP magnifier works too! Handy in a pinch but not as nice as Magical Glass.
Chienworks wrote on 4/29/2005, 2:23 PM
Keep in mind that these magnifiers won't show you detail that isn't in the preview window. If you have your window reduced to less than project size (say, 320x240), you are only seeing 1/4 or less of the pixels from a DV frame. The magnifier won't show you the missing pixels, it will only make the pixels that are shown bigger.

If you display at full size then you see all the pixels (at least the ones that appear in the preview window). However, you'll only see the center of the frame. What would be nice is a way to scroll around the frame in the preview window when the frame is larger than the window.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/29/2005, 2:34 PM
" What would be nice is a way to scroll around the frame in the preview window when the frame is larger than the window."

Yes definitely - that'd be great.
johnmeyer wrote on 4/29/2005, 4:40 PM
Yeah, the mganifier won't help me get the eyedropper sampler on the exact pixel I want to use when doing color correction. That's MY meain need for a zoomed preview. Long overdue, in my opinion.