Preview in external monitor

castlepark wrote on 11/4/2005, 3:34 PM
Sorry if this is a bit basic for a lot of you but I am really having trouble viewing my editing on an external monitor and I would like to view my work in Vegas 5 and DVD A2

I have a fire wire enabled Sony VX 2100 with the standart RCA yellow video connection running from the camcorder to the input on the monitor but no picture.

The camcorder is shown as working in the video device tab and is set at OHCI compliant. The 'view in external monitor' button has been activated above the preview window, so in theroy it should work!

I am in the UK so everything is set to the PAL format. Is this a possible issue as I have heard that some PAL camcorders will not allow pass through of the signal?

Do I need certain hardware in my computer to send the signal back to the camcorder throught the firewire or am I missing something really obvious?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks
Steve

Comments

Bill Ravens wrote on 11/5/2005, 9:25 AM
Steve...

If I understand your setup, you're trying to capture a video stream from your camcorder and display that stream on an external monitor mounted on the same 1394 bus. My experience has been that firewire has great difficulty in capturing and displaying on the same firewire bus. I've had success in doing simultaneous capture and external monitor viewing by using two firewire bus cards, one for each function. Hope this helps.

Best regards
craftech wrote on 11/6/2005, 5:44 AM
Sounds like a camera setting. I believe the camera's power switch has to be set to VCR and the menu set to AV - DV OUT.

John
castlepark wrote on 11/6/2005, 3:29 PM
Bill

Thanks for your reply. Sorry if I mislead you. I'm not trying to do anything fancy. I am quite new to Vegas and just want to view my work in an external monitor so I can see what my text and graphics look like on a bigger screen instead of just using the small preview window in Vegas and when authoring in DVD Architect.

Thanks
Steve

castlepark wrote on 11/6/2005, 3:35 PM
John

The camcorder is set to VCR and AV - DV OUT. Perhaps my DV - IN is not enabled on this PAL camcorder?

Thanks
Steve
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/6/2005, 4:33 PM
Have you by chance disabled "Recompress Edited Frames" in the Preferences/Video tab?
jaegersing wrote on 11/6/2005, 9:47 PM
Hi Steve. You can check if your firewire In is working by trying to Print To Tape from the Vegas timeline. Export a short section of DV without effects so that Vegas does not have to do any rendering. If you can record onto (blank!) tape in this way then your FW In is enabled.

Richard Hunter
gordyboy wrote on 11/7/2005, 4:39 AM
Make sure the project properties are set to PAL otherwise you won't see anything (unless you have saved this as a preference previously, Vegas tends to default to a NTSC project which more than likely isn't supported on your external monitor).

Used to catch me out all the time until I changed the standard preferences.

Cheers

gb
castlepark wrote on 11/7/2005, 12:01 PM
Hi Richard

Thanks for your reply. Yes, the firewire is working as I have captured a lot of video footage through it to my external drive.

I have also tried to print to tape as you suggest with a small un-edited clip on the time line but have not been able to as it does not seem to recognise the camera and nothing shows on the LCD screen! DV in / out is also enabled with the camera.

It looks like the computer is not sending the video information back up the fire wire to the camcorder. I'm going to check with my computer engineer to see if additional hardware needs to be added.

Thanks for your help
Steve



castlepark wrote on 11/7/2005, 12:08 PM
DSE

I did check but "Recompress Edited Frames" is still enabled with the tick in the check box.

Thanks
Steve
castlepark wrote on 11/7/2005, 12:21 PM
gb

Thanks for the suggestion. I did check but everything is set to PAL. and I have saved it as my preference.

My potable TV will play the video fine when tapes are played directly to it from the camcorder.

The camcorder (Sony VX2100) works OK and will accept DV in and out according to Sony UK. As I said in an earlier post it would seem to be a problem with the computer by a process of elimination!

Thanks
Steve

alfredsvideo wrote on 11/7/2005, 1:22 PM
On my camera, the menu gives me an A/V>DV OUT selection. When I click on it, it gives me the option to have it on or off. I have to have mine in the off position to view on an external monitor, otherwise I get a black screen.
alfredsvideo wrote on 11/7/2005, 1:25 PM
Addendum to last post: You still need your firewire cable to be connected by as well.
castlepark wrote on 11/7/2005, 2:14 PM
Hi Alfred

You are a star. I did as you said and as if by magic it all worked!!!
Thanks very much. I thought I had tried this before but for what ever reason it didn't seem to work then.

I've just got to get it to work in Architect now! The signal is getting through though but no sign of the text or other media when working in DVDA2 but really grateful I've finally got it working in Vegas.

Thanks again
Steve