Thanks you for the swift reply Dave.

That's what I was afraid of hearing.

I'll also check with Canopus to see if they perhaps have a driver that
makes the DV REX 1394 ports OHCI compliant (if it can be fixed via
software... don't know until I ask.) Otherwise, I'll pop another
DV I/O board into the system (hope I have room).

Best - Greg Loveria

Dave Hill wrote:
>>Unfortunatley, DV REX is not OHCI compliant, and is not supported by
>>Vegas at this time. You can use any of the cheap OHCI-compliant DV
>>boards out there and get external monitor from Vegas. These cards
can
>>be had for less than $100.
>>
>>Greg Loveria wrote:
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>We purchased Vegas 2.0 last week. We're new to Vegas, but
>>>>not to non-linear editing systems and DV. So far it looks
>>>>like V2.0 was a good investment. Plenty of goodies that we
>>>>can't get, even in Boris FX.
>>>>
>>>>Our main NLE system has Canopus Corp's DV/REX M1 hardware
>>>>and software with their I/O breakout box installed in an
>>>>internal bay. This DV/REX box allows standard analog
>>>>video I/O (S-Video and RCA connections)and digital audio
>>>>(SPDIF/1394/Optical) as well as 1394/FireWire/iLink for DV
>>>>I/O via internal 'on-the-card' and external 1394
>>>>connections.
>>>>
>>>>During editing in Vegas, we can not display video on the
>>>>external monitor, no matter how many configurations we've
>>>>tried.
>>>>
>>>>The preview window within Vegas is nice, but for us we
>>>>feel that one needs to edit with an external monitor to
>>>>scrub through an editing project correctly (as we do with
>>>>the Rex Edit software now.)
>>>>
>>>>We've ported DV through the DV/Rex's 1394 ports to an
>>>>external monior for a year or so now (as we also do with our
>>>>DPS systems with Premiere and Ulead's MediaStudio prodcuts.)
>>>>All the systems run Win98SE builds 4.10.2222 A.
>>>>
>>>>In all of these non-Vegas configurations, DV comes out the
>>>>1394/Firewire connections directly into our Canon XL1s and
>>>>Sony cameras and from there we analog A/V directly out to
>>>>the inputs of our external NTSC monitors.
>>>>
>>>>When we render previews in Vegas, we use the Canopus codec
>>>>(which is actually Sony's codec.) We can see the preview
>>>>video on the external monitor at this time, but not during
>>>>editing.
>>>>
>>>>In the Vegas 'Preferences' pull-down, we set the 'External
>>>>Monitor' tab's pull-down box to the 'OHCI Compliant
>>>>IEEE1394/DV' settings. When we select this pull-down
>>>>option, the response in the dialog box below reads out:
>>>>
>>>>"This device supports recompression
>>>>Hot pluggable device
>>>>Device unavailable"
>>>>
>>>>This is without any other DV/Rex software running.
>>>>
>>>>Do we have to first specify a capture program, such as our
>>>>Rex Video executable, before we can see video on the
>>>>external monitor?
>>>>
>>>>Also, how does one control camera transport functions (FF,
>>>>Play, RW, Record) within Vegas?
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>>>>
>>>>Greg Loveria