No audio from laptop firewire out

jfer wrote on 10/17/2006, 12:16 AM
OK, I just purchased a laptop, installed V7 on it and decided to preview as I'm working to my big screen tv via a canopus 300. So firewire into canopus, analog a/v out. Problem is no audio out on preview out on my tv, just video.

So, went to Circuit City, bought a firewire card, thinking I needed higher bandwidth. With this card came Ulead's Video Studio SE ver.8 lite, bare bones stuff. After playing with the setup, it had an option in preferences to preview on both computer AND external device. Well, you guessed it, video, as well as audio, outputted just fine.

I racked my brain for 3 days with Vegas trying to get it to work...forget Toshiba techs, level 2, said it won't work, that's not correct as is does, but with a 40.00 editor.?

Question is, what setting in V7 will allow the audio to output as well? I beleive I've tried every combination to no avail. Could it be a 500.00 program does not provide this basic function, or is it a V7 bug, setting or other problem?

Audio does come out of the headphones jack, mini to to RCA, but that defeats the portability purpose. Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks in advance.

John

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farss wrote on 10/17/2006, 12:24 AM
Vegas by design does not output audio to the VIDEO preview device.
Makes sense to me.
During PTT to the ADVC 300 it will ouput audio and vision.
Why do you consider it a basic function?
If it did output audio in the DV stream that'd strike me as being kind of crippling as I run most of my audio at 24bit which is outside the DV spec.
As you've noted audio DOES come out your audio device which is bult into the laptop, how is that defeating the portability purpose?
jfer wrote on 10/17/2006, 12:40 AM
Hey, thanks for replying. Yes I did test the PTT on my laptop, straight to my VX2100, work like charm. Also, PTT to a common, DVD recorder hooked to the big screen tv, after thr pre-render, it out the audio also.

My reason is that a project I am working on has to different languages and for artistic reasons, I mixed the same video, synced the audio, French to left ch, English to right. So, on my laptop, you just can get a sense of what it sounds like, (speakers are too close) without have to PTT, long process, just to tweak the audio.

I'm not sure why it should be a basic function. Might have to download Edius 4 and PP2, see what they do.

Portability, because I'd like to work at a cliecnts place of business or home even and having to hook up more wires and devices is a bit too intrusive to me at least.

John
farss wrote on 10/17/2006, 1:21 AM
OK,
well here's where you get to discover the power of Vegas!

Put French dialogue on one track, your English on another.

Now you can mute or solo each of those tracks and voila, you get to hear either one or the other and out of both speakers.

Need to do something more complex?

Use audio busses, one for English and one for French, Assigne as many track as needed to each buss and then by muting the either of the two busses again you can control if you hear the French or English mix!

Much easier than pulling plugs out of the ADVC 300, in fact you can leave that behind and you're more portable.

BTW if you're going to give such a tape to someone else make certain it's clearly labelled, trust me, I seen this done before and major confusion set in real quick.

If you're using a tape format like digibetacam things get much easier with 4 audio tracks and yes Vegas can handle all this.

Bob.

Chienworks wrote on 10/17/2006, 5:46 AM
All you need is one more cable. A 6' or 12' 1/8" stereo to dual RCA cable connected between the laptop headphone jack and the TV will take care of it for you. These can be had at Wal*Mart or Radio Shack for under $10. Compared to the firewire card, cable, ADVC 300, and the AV cables you're already using, this extra cable is nothing.
jfer wrote on 10/17/2006, 9:21 AM
Thank you guys, for your help. I can do without the audio out preview. Vegas is hard to leave! LOL

Farss, that's what I originally did, and that will have to work. Chienworks, that was my original temp. solution, it works fine, just didn't want cables running across a room, but if I have to I will do it. This is just a pet projet for a friend, so it's not critical. Thanks again.

John