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FuTz wrote on 6/6/2003, 8:38 AM
Depends of your graphic card: do you have Dual Head or something like that? You can get a good and cheap one like Matrox G550/450... if you're NOT a gamer, that is. In that case, I think you should go with ATI or ask people there wich card they're using . And try a "search" with key words; dual head, dual monitor, etc...
SvenC wrote on 6/6/2003, 9:31 AM
Using ATI Radeon 7000 Series with dual DVI out. Works perfect!
Finatic13 wrote on 6/6/2003, 9:41 AM
Whilst its true you can actually have the preview WINDOW full screen am i correct in saying that it doesnt matter what graphics card you are using, you wont and cant have the preview IMAGE full screen on a second(or primary) monitor?

The largest you can see the actual preview on any PC screen 720 x 480 NTSC or 720 x 576 yeh ??

Ive been using dual monitors with a G450 card and a small TV as an external monitor out of my Canopus ADVC100. This apears to be the only way you can see your footage full screen
Barrie wrote on 6/6/2003, 11:36 AM
I'm still just trying out the Vegas demo, but so far it is a great product and works very well with dual monitors.

I use an ATI 9700TX card (similar to 9800) with 2 VGA monitors. I put the 720x480 Vegas preview window on the secondary monitor which is running at 800x600, so this way the preview is ALMOST fullscreen. If the preview window was truly running at full screen I think the frame rate would drop and the image would not look as good, since the graphics card and PC CPU would have to work harder to scale the 720x480 image to whatever resolution the monitor was running (800 x 600 in this case).

Also like simonwim I sometimes output the preview window by 1394 through a camcorder to an external monitor (a TV), and this is full screen but is a little choppy (lowered framerate) but this tells me what the colors will be, the image has slightly different brightness/colors compared to the VGA preview window.

kilroy wrote on 6/6/2003, 12:07 PM

"Ive been using dual monitors with a G450 card and a small TV as an external monitor out of my Canopus ADVC100. This apears to be the only way you can see your footage full screen."

And is a far better solution in practice. You may as well just do your referencing on the hardware most folks are going to be viewing it on and have done with it. Of course a *good* video reference monitor is even better.
SatanJr wrote on 6/6/2003, 1:33 PM
I have two 21"s and a 36" TV going all the time when I am editing in vegas.


doncarp wrote on 6/6/2003, 4:46 PM
How do you undock the preview window to get it isolated on the second monitor?
jetdv wrote on 6/6/2003, 10:01 PM
click on the tall vertical line to the left of the preview window and drag.