Monkey on my back - dual monitors

cheroxy wrote on 10/7/2004, 12:29 PM

I have been using these forums for a few years now. I have never dealt with dual monitors, but I have noticed that it is always popping up, again and again. Sorry to add to the list, but after trying for a couple of hours and doing a few searches in this forum I can't figure my situation out.

I bought a new video card for my desktop. It has an svideo out. I have an svideo port on my laptop. My intentions are to use the svideo cable to connect the two and have my laptop as a second monitor so that I can put a few of the vegas windows on that second monitor. I have been able to put the monitor view from my laptop onto my camera when I messed around before. That makes me wonder if my laptop's svideo is out only and not in.
Does anybody know if that may be true?
Also, when I turn on dual monitor on the desktop, how do I get a window into the other monitor? Help says to drag it over, but I can't drag it anywhere that leaves the program.
thanks,
Cheroxy

Comments

JL wrote on 10/7/2004, 12:43 PM

AFAIK, you need a dual head video card, e.g. dual DVI, to operate (stretch) Windows over two computer screens.

You need to go firewire out through a D/A converter to an external monitor to get ‘external preview’ in Vegas.

I believe s-video out from a video card will only let you display a copy of the computer screen, say on a TV.

JL

logiquem wrote on 10/7/2004, 1:12 PM

I permanently use a second LCD monitor on VGA with my toshiba laptop plus an NTSC via Firewire. On a laptop, you have the choice to use *either* the Svideo or the VGA output, not two at the same time.

cheroxy wrote on 10/7/2004, 1:45 PM

I have my main monitor on VGA out. Could I do a second with the dvi out?

BrianStanding wrote on 10/7/2004, 1:57 PM

"I have my main monitor on VGA out. Could I do a second with the dvi out? "

You bet. That's how mine is set up. I have two CRT monitors, one plugged into the VGA port and one plugged into the DVI port with a DVI/VGA adaptor. Works perfectly.

You also may want to take a look at this:
http://www.maxivista.com/

BobMoyer wrote on 10/7/2004, 2:59 PM

This may or may not help with your setup, but with my dual monitor setup, I cannot drag a maximized window from one monitor to the other. If I "Restore Down", then I can move the windows anywhere I want and then 'maximize' them and they will keep that position with each boot. Hope this helps.

Bob

epirb wrote on 10/7/2004, 3:00 PM

Just as a note most laptops like the newer ones from Dells, Sony's have a VGA port on the back, and their built in video cards allow you to use a second screen, either dual monitor setup or say output to a DLP or LCD projector. But the VGA cannot be used as an input to the laptop screen.

Best bet , if you want dual monitors(and once you have them you will want to keep em! ) if budget is a concern by a second CRT( they're cheap nowdays with the proliferation of LCD's).
Set it up on your PC and really enjoy the Vegas dock's!

****BTW as a little side note if your reading this Jedtv, a while back when we all met in Orlando, you were having trouble displaying the videos/DVD's in windows Media Player on the projector.
I found that on many laptops it will not show on the second monitor/projector when you have both screens activated. if you shut off the laptop screen however, so that just the external monitor is active it will play then.
This is usaully done via cycling a function key on the laptop.
.***

edmellnik wrote on 10/18/2004, 3:05 PM

I hve mine set as two monitors and it spans across....
but is there a way to separate all these modules so you can lay them out
to your liking.
All I seem to be able to do is stretch the whole interface...

ed

RalphM wrote on 10/18/2004, 4:34 PM

This article on dual monitors was pointed out in another thread...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1674441,00.asp