Preview on External Monitor

AlistairLock wrote on 5/7/2004, 1:41 AM
I'm using a Canopus ACE DVIO capture card.

I've noticed that although I can preview to an external monitor quite
happily from Vegas, I can't seem to be able to do it from DVD Architect 2,
though I have the external monitor set-up the same in preferences.

Add to that; in Sound Forge the program complains that I have not the
appropriate hardware attached, though I have just set up my card the same
as the other programs through the preferences.

What am I missing?

Thanks

Comments

briang wrote on 5/7/2004, 3:17 AM
Alistair

I am using a standalone ADVC-100 and am experiencing the same problem with DVDA 2 as you are.

I have have set the preferences correctly and checked the external monitor icons.

I use a professional Sony monitor.

The ADVC-100 has worked well for me with the Sony monitor and Vegas 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. so it is a bit of a mystery.

It is not a "Show Stopper", but would be nice to have monitor preview.

I am using dual Pentium 3 866 Mhz with 256 Mb ram and Windows XP Professional.

Perhaps Sony can look into this?

Regards

BrianG

clearvu wrote on 5/7/2004, 4:36 AM
I'm not sure exactly what your problem might be, however, I too have the ADVC-100 and it works fine for me.

The only thing I can suggest is make sure you click on the "Preview on external monitor" button within DVDA2
Randy Brown wrote on 5/7/2004, 6:24 AM
>>make sure you click on the "Preview on external monitor" button within DVDA2 <<

Where the heck is this button? I've had to select it on the options drop down menu every time. I would think it would be around the preview window like with V4 and V5 but I can't find it.
TIA,
Randy
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/7/2004, 8:29 AM
In the Preview window, upper right hand corner.
Randy Brown wrote on 5/8/2004, 7:08 AM
Oops, I didn't mean the preview window, I meant the video preview...ie say you're working in the timeline and need to toggle the external monitor on and off.
TIA,
Randy
farss wrote on 5/8/2004, 7:32 AM
I've tried everything to get this working. I had it work for about 1 minute then it stopped and has never worked since. Preview works fine in Vegas 4/5, no problem. Other have reported that a clean re-install of DVDA 2 will get it to work, briefly, and then it dies again.
I'm using ADVC-300 and Firewire-410 for audio but it seems others have quite different gear and have the same problem.

Very annoying!
Grazie wrote on 5/8/2004, 7:49 AM
Nope, I can't either. Vegas 3, 4, 5 all Preview on External Monitor and VidCap . . PTT no problem . . DVDA2 and Sound Forge don't preview on external monitor. I too use the Canopus ACEDVio Card.

Grazie
PAW wrote on 5/8/2004, 10:11 AM

I think this must be a known problem.

For me Vegas 3/4/5 have always worked fine

DVDA 2 is a funny one. The first time I used it the preview worked except the external preview for PAL Widescreen was letterboxed (this was the case in Vegas 3/4 but has been fixed in 5)

The next time I started DVDA2 it would not preview. By going into options, video device and changing the option for format to the other PAL option (4:4 to 16:9 or the other way around) and then going to the icon for external monitor preview and turning if off and then back on again kicks the DVDA external preview back into life again. it will then work fine (expect for the leterboxing issue) releasing the 1394 device so I can flip betwen Vegas and DVDA2 and have them both preview.

Once I quit DVDA2 I have to go through the change format routine described to get it working again.

ACID Pro and Soundforge will not work with external preview. The video device option show the 1394 availabel but it will not work.

I droped a note to tech support on the ACID Pro one and they said it would be fixed in a future release.

I use XP Pro and an ADVC-100 for my external monitor.

Paul
johnmeyer wrote on 5/8/2004, 10:27 AM
Just to make sure we are on the same page, in DVDA 2.0, I think you can only preview on an external monitor when using the Preview function, but not when looking at video on the DVDA 2.0 timeline. I don't know why you cannot preview from the timeline, but I see no way to enable it.
AlistairLock wrote on 5/8/2004, 10:45 AM
I'm almost relieved that I'm not alone in this.

"Others have reported that a clean re-install of DVDA 2 will get it to work, briefly, and then it dies again."

In fact, when I first installed DVD2.0 the preview worked, no problem, then on the next session, didn't.

I'm hoping that now this problem is known to be widespread, the next point release will rectify the problem, together with the preview problem in Sound Forge.
clearvu wrote on 5/8/2004, 12:05 PM
As I've mentioned before, I'm using the ADVC-100 but the preview works just fine within DVD2.

One post here mentioned being able to get "preview window" to work but not "video preview".

Again, I have it working with no problem. I can see the preview with everything I do.

My only complaint is that the audio lags behind. I certainly wish it would not, but it does. I can't figure out what to do to correct this. However, at least I can get an idea of how things look "visually", which is a big bonus of DVDA's added feature
Randy Brown wrote on 5/8/2004, 12:28 PM
That sounds like a sound card issue...maybe compare your settings in V5 to DVDA2?
Randy
briang wrote on 5/9/2004, 1:04 AM
PAW

I tried you approach with DVDA 2 and my ADVC-100 . It worked!

Same characteristics as your problem though. Close down DVDA 2 and you have go back into options and switch between PAL widescreen and PAL DVD to get it to function again.

However as an interim solution it seems to work fine.

Thanks for the tip!

BrianG
PAW wrote on 5/9/2004, 4:00 AM

Brian glad it helped.

I find problems with Video apps that only appear when working in PAL

I guess it is because most of the software orginates in the US and the software developers are running NTSC by default

There always seems to be "that is a problem in PAL only" scenarios with most apps.

Paul
farss wrote on 5/9/2004, 6:21 AM
Which is really odd as PAL is much easier to deal with from a NLE point of view, at least with PAL you only need integer maths to count frames :)
JJKizak wrote on 5/9/2004, 6:46 AM
I had some issues with the preview externally and regular with my ADVC-300 but after going through the options and apps it started to work perfect in NTSC. The difference between V4 & V5 is in V4 once you selected the external monitor the preview window was not showing video period. In V5 now they both show with the external monitor selected but when you hit the play button only the external monitor shows video.

JJK