Preview on external monitor

marscaleb wrote on 8/31/2008, 7:21 PM
I'm using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 6.0
I recently set up my computer to use two monitors, but I can't get Vegas to display the preview on the second monitor.
The button labeled as "Preview external monitor" simply does not do anything so far as I can see.
I went in to configure the preview device and I have no option under device other than the one listed there and "none," and I do not recognize the device listed as anything I have seen in any setting on my system, and further more I can find no option to add any new device.

Quite frankly, I just don't know how to proceed with this. I want to use my second monitor as a full-screen preview of my videos. How can I do this?

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 8/31/2008, 9:04 PM
I might be wrong but full screen second monitor preview was introduced in Platinum 8. I suggest you just upgrade to v9, or at least try out its trial version to see if this works.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 8/31/2008, 9:44 PM
I have a dual head video card with two computer monitors attached. I also have a studio monitor attached for full screen preview and to see what it will look like on a tv set (very different than it does on a computer monitor). I have a firewire out from the computer to a Canopus ADVC110 (which converts the digital to analog) and then an Svideo from the ADVC110 to the studio monitor.
Everytime you start Vegas you have to go to the menu and select the output (which says something like ieee compatible device and then you have to click on the external monitor icon over the preview window. I believe you can do the same thing using a digital camcorder with pass through instead of the 110.
marscaleb wrote on 8/31/2008, 10:35 PM
Man, I don't have a camcorder to pass through, I just have a TV output on my computer.
I thought it would be great to use it as a second monitor, but this is the only program where it would ever be useful to have a second screen. (Especial a screen that doesn't have the detail of a full monitor.)
richard-amirault wrote on 9/1/2008, 5:44 PM
Does the second monitor show *anything* .. in *any* program?

I ask this because some set ups will use the second monitor as an expanded desk top.

If this is your case you can try to grab the preview window (by the dots) and drag it over to the second monitor .. and, of course, expand it to full screen.
marscaleb wrote on 9/1/2008, 6:24 PM
Yeah, it works as an expanded desktop, and I *can* simply re-arrange the windows so that the preview appears on the other monitor.
However, since my layout is that I am actually using a TV as my second monitor, the preview looks terrible like that. What I want is a full-screen preview, because then it would actually show the detail I am interested in.
Also, I want to keep the smaller preview screen just beneath the timeline, because that one would still be the most conveiniant while I'm working, but I want a seond full-screen monitor for when I'm, well, previewing the movie.

But things are looking like I don't quite have the ability that I truly need...
Eugenia wrote on 9/1/2008, 6:28 PM
Did you do what I suggested? Try the V9 trial? As I said, I think only v8+ has support for second monitor
fishbelt wrote on 9/2/2008, 8:45 AM
Eugenia is right you have to up grade. I was doing some football editing and need ro highlight a player. So i need full screen to follow the plays. I up graded to Vegas moive studio Platinum 8. But you may well get 9, if you can. Works fine.
marscaleb wrote on 9/3/2008, 1:14 PM
Alright then, I guess that's just the way it has to be...
DVC wrote on 9/4/2008, 4:14 AM
I tried V 8 pro and it would NOT send HD to a second monitor connected via HDMI. So, I'm not sure upgrading is the solution.

For some reason, despite setting it all up, nothing goes to the second monitor.

Eugenia wrote on 9/4/2008, 9:46 AM
HDMI is not always supported as a second monitor, because Windows might not recognize it as such. Try a DVI or VGA monitor, make sure that windows sees it as "extended desktop" and then use vegas with it.