External television monitor

Hebbedingetje wrote on 9/22/2003, 5:08 PM

I try to use send video from the Vegas timeline to an external television monitor. I use the Video Device tab in the Preferences dialog to configure 1394 DV card like the Vegas help said. But it dont’t work. I use Vegas Video 4 with the Sony DCR TRV 19e.

Thanks in advance!
Carlo

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BrianStanding wrote on 9/23/2003, 10:23 AM

If your camera does not have DV-in capability (often the case with European models), preview to monitor won't work. Surf the net for a hack for your camera, or you may have to buy a DV to analog converter.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/23/2003, 5:46 PM

Here is one such page that has instructions for doing what BStanding suggests. Proceed at your own risk ...

http://members.nextra.at/erpar//Lremote.htm

Hebbedingetje wrote on 9/24/2003, 2:35 AM

My camera does have digital in and out, that's not the problem. The problem is that my Sony TRV 19e hasn't a DA converter!
So I need a expensive converter or another way to do this.

This is what ik read, but I do not understand it.

I have an ATI Radeon card with s-video out. I preview the Vegas preview window on my TV by going into the ATI control panel and extending my desktop across my computer monitor and television. I then undock the preview window in Vegas and drag it over to my television. I can then expand the preview until it's about 80% of full screen and get good playback. More layers/effects require a smaller window to get good playback framerates but it's still better for judging video quality than my LCD.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/24/2003, 2:58 AM

Like I said in my earlier post, you may be able to modify your camera so that it can pass through video. The NTSC versions of your camera can do this. The PAL versions were modified by Sony to satisfy the requirements of the European trade unions (supposedly protecting jobs).

FuTz wrote on 9/24/2003, 2:50 PM

I might add that depending of your computer config, you may not be able to get a preview unless you prerender or at least make a dynamic RAM preview.
I got an Athlon 1000 and can only see - at last- what I've been working on while I render (at a slow pace...) or after it's been rendered.
***sight***
When I use ext preview, it takes around 3 seconds to get something on my tv set *from the timeline* only (not from Explorer or Media Pool or Trimmer) AND while it's *paused*. Not very usefull. I then have to prerender to get a slight idea...
I dream of two things:
-a *working* ext preview from everywhere inside Vegas
-a rotoscopy app to make frame by frame animation/matte'ing ... but this one's another story...