No audio via FireWire during Preview

massi wrote on 5/5/2004, 4:20 PM
Hy Guys,
I am a primer video maker.
I am using VV4 linked to a DataVideo DAC 100 Video Convertervia FireWire to preview the time line on an external PAL video monitor.
It's cool.
It's work perfect during scrub and the video quality is excellent but the Audio is Absent!
Why I must click Tools > Print to Video DV Tape to preview the whole (audio+video) project.
Other NLE do this easy (Avid Express and Blade for example).
Am I doing something wrong?
Thx guys

Massimo

Comments

Nat wrote on 5/5/2004, 4:28 PM
Vegas does not send audio through firewire during previews to external monitor, you'll need to use your soundcard output.
massi wrote on 5/5/2004, 4:37 PM
Hy Nat,
I know, I do this in fact, but I don't understand the reason for this way.
Almost every Video Monitor has an internal speaker and amp.
It seems so strange to force to use the Audio card.
Any Idea to solve the problem?

thx
Massimo
beerandchips wrote on 5/6/2004, 10:03 AM
Saves bandwidth for one. and probably processor power.
filmy wrote on 5/6/2004, 4:42 PM
>>>It seems so strange to force to use the Audio card.
Any Idea to solve the problem?<<<

THis has been discussed in the past. It is not a bug to be fixed...because it is not a bug. That is the way Vegas was designed. I don't think I have ever gotten an answer as to why that is - one of the things I suggested for Vegas 5 was the ability to preview audio via firewire without having to PTT and render to the *.w64 format.

What people have suggested to me is that if one was really that despereate to preview audio via a tiny, poor, tv speaker just run the audio from your sound card to the RCA in on your monitor. Another suggestion I remember was from either SonicDennis or EPM - they ran everything to an outboard mixer and just routed it to wherever it needed to go.
pwppch wrote on 5/6/2004, 7:51 PM
Vegas does not preview audio over the Firewire connection. All Audio in Vegas is monitored through the PC audio hardware you have installed.

Why would you want to do this? The typical firewire device's audio capabilities are lousy even compared to the lowest end audio solution for a PC.

Peter