Dual head monitor – external monitor output

robert_stupid wrote on 4/10/2003, 1:33 AM
It would seem from other questions answered here that the external monitor in Vega 4.0 is only via 1394 DV, correct?

I have been using another video editing program that allows for output to the second monitor on a dual monitor card and love the feature.

Is such an addition being planned as a future functionality of Vega?

I must say that I love your software, but truly miss this feature!

Also any plans for full support of the Pinnacle pro–one?


Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/10/2003, 2:51 AM
You'll never see support for the Pinnacle Pro One, even Pinnacle has effectively abandoned that card.
You are probably talking about the Matrox Parhelia for Vegas output, and yes, it's nice, no doubt. Less stress on the 1394 bus. Maybe someday.
Currently video preview is only available via 1394
FuTz wrote on 4/10/2003, 9:38 AM
I'm with you Robert; I own a G450Millenium Matrox (next system:Parhelia maybe?) card and that'd be nice to have the option to choose...
For Pinnacle, I don't really care for now; they have their own NLE programs, etc...and I chose Vegas. ;)
RBartlett wrote on 4/10/2003, 2:01 PM
Matrox G series cards are limited to 16bit for DVDMax. A certain other well known NLE (that is about to go to ver 7.0) gives you realtime video out on DV input, scrubbing and from mediaplayer.
Parhelia (p series) is upto 30bit uncompressed out using either DVDMac or PureVideo. SVIDEO is best, possibly RGBHV too.

Matrox says that the graph cannot be inserted to give DVDMax or PureVideo because directshow isn't accessed in overlay mode with the preview engine of Vegas. Referring to the update as a BlIT (blitting). However I don't believe that DV interfacing can work this way, and DV has to be rendered on the fly whatever project type you are working on (and passed through if untouched source DV is met). So I think it is worthwhile for such cards to be given support before NLE custom chip cards. IMHO.

We'll see what SoFo want. Maybe they want to head for HD-SDI right now. You can always render to AVI first and use a non-blitter oriented app to get out of the Parhelia or contouring Matrox G-series.