External monitor - problems

thedude wrote on 6/2/2002, 9:58 AM

Hi there,
I've tried everything I can to output to my Sony ext. monitor but no luck.
I'm running VV" on an AMD 1800 with 1/2 gigram on Win XP.
Camera Sony PD150.
I have set up VV2 as per the instruction, have frames recompressed ticked.
The fire wire is connected and working and I have tried c onnecting the camera to the monitor via s video and video phono connections.
When I click on the ext. monitor icon in VV2, the message:
" preview on external monitor"
pops-up with:
" frames recommpressed"
(in red) underneath, but just for a second when the preview in stopped - not
when it's running. That's the only time that I see that message.
There is to image in the camera viewfinder or LCD screen.
I have the setting:
OHCI compliant1eee1394 DV
selected in external monitor preferences
and this message below:
This device supports recompression
Hot pluggable device
Device connected

Please help as this is driving me crazy.

thanks,

Joe

Comments

stepfour wrote on 6/2/2002, 2:08 PM

I've done dual monitor setups with dualhead video cards but I am not familiar with the type of monitor you are using. I preview from firewire to camcorder to TV which sounds almost like what you're doing.

Does the monitor have any settings you have to make in it's menu, if it has one, to tell it what the input source (s-video, composite) is?

Does the monitor support the resolution you are using on the computer?

Does the camera have any menu setting you have to make to tell it you are using DV-in, instead of out?

Is your firewire cable in good working condition and plugged in firmly on both ends?

Have you done captures in Vegas with your setup?

Hope you can experiment with it and hit on something that makes it go. I'm sure some of the more Vegas-knowlegeable people will chime in here soon and give you some ideas.

BillyBoy wrote on 6/2/2002, 2:26 PM

Hey dude... (always wanted to say that)

Firewire cable between PC and camera?

Yellow or S-Video from Camera to your TV monitor?

Have you tried just camera to your monitor, without hooking up to PC just to be sure your camera will feed a signal out?

Most newer TV's have several inputs. Did you switch your TV to the CORRECT input? Mine has a position for TV plus input one and input two.

Does your camera show some indication it is receiving a digital signal? This should happen as soon as you plug the firewire cable from the camera into the computer, even before you try to do anything. Mine (Canon ZR45) shows DV In or DV out depending on which way I'm going.

If all the above, try pulling and removing the firewire cable at either the camera or computer end. I'm using Windows XP, each time I do that Windows gives a audio cue and also bring up a digital device window. If it does, just click on the do nothing option so the focus can be taken over by Vegas. Rare, but if you don't dismiss that window it may grab or attempt to grab focus and nothing much will happen.

BillyBoy wrote on 6/2/2002, 2:39 PM

Couple more things...

Are you connected to an external TV or monitor? If you're just hooking up to another computer monitor, little point if you're trying to edit off that monitor and check levels, colors, etc.. You want to have either a NTSC monitor (expensive) or just a plain TV that also runs under NTSC specs, most in (states) do.

Once you know your TV can and does display an image from the camera (VCR mode) then move the cursor around on the timeline if the screen in black. That could mean the video may not be all the way to the extreme left on the timeline. If not, that can give a black screen, when everything is setup right.

SonyDennis wrote on 6/2/2002, 4:02 PM

Some questions:

> When I click on the ext. monitor icon in VV2, the message:
> " preview on external monitor"
> pops-up with:
> " frames recommpressed"
> (in red) underneath, but just for a second when the preview in stopped - not
when it's running. That's the only time that I see that message.

What do you see other times?

> There is to image in the camera viewfinder or LCD screen.

What? Are you able to see anything on your camera LCD? Is the camera set to "DV in" mode? Check your manual for how to do that.

If you can't see it on the camera LCD/viewfinder, you're not going to see it on the s-video or composite out.

///d@

HPV wrote on 6/2/2002, 4:19 PM

Joe and I have been talking about this on the rec.video.desktop newsgroup for the last few days. It really looks like it is "his" PD150 camera or Vegas and PD150s in general. Joe, do you have any friends with DV cam that you could test with ?

Craig H.

BD wrote on 6/2/2002, 8:44 PM

And you could isolate the problem by connecting the PD150 to a different DV output device (instead of your computer), using a different fireware cable, to see if the PD150 will display the video.