Previewing your work on external monitor

asafb wrote on 2/7/2002, 8:08 PM

Dear Folks

When I'm using VV3, I would like to see my preview not on that small screen of my monitor, but on a big TV! That's right, TV. I have an S-Video out on my Nvidia GeForce2 card. Will that work if I connect it to an S-Video input?

Help!

-ab

Comments

FadeToBlack wrote on 2/7/2002, 8:18 PM

swarrine wrote on 2/7/2002, 8:51 PM

I don't believe so.

You need to run an external monitor via your camcorder. Firewire to camcorder, analog out from camcorder to TV.

Note: this is for video ONLY. Audio will run through your computer. Or you can wire your sound card to your TV.

HPV wrote on 2/7/2002, 11:14 PM

What have you found so far when you use Search for GeForce2? I saw 34 posts there.
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GG is right on with this. Lots of those post where mine. I still haven't heard from anyone doing this with XP, but it flat out rocks on my ME system. Always a few frames per second faster than OHCI ext. monitor. On multicam editing with three or four scaled tracks on the screen it's twice the frame rate as OHCI output. Frame based for easy on the eyes editing. But that does require you to use the OHCI output for checking jitter in graphics and stills. Easy to bouce back and forth with an S-video switcher on one monitor. Draft mode is very good (kills OHCI) and you can reduce to 360x240 when needed to gain back framerate.

Craig H.

asafb wrote on 2/7/2002, 11:51 PM

Thanks for the feedback. I tried that config with the analog out to TV, but I can't see the edits I'm doing (like fade in) -- says I have to recompress..

yuck!!

ab

and i'm NOT getting that $500 Canopus card!

HPV wrote on 2/8/2002, 4:07 PM

-- says I have to recompress..
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You don't want to activate the OHCI external monitor icon in the preview window. That sends video out the OHCI/1394 card to a cam/conv.box and then to your TV. The recompress you see is something that can be turned on for the OHCI output so you see transitions and such.
What you want is multi monitor in Windows. Set analog s-video to 640x480. Horz. span. Make sure S cable is plugged into your Geforce card to let you set up the analog output in Windows display properties.
Then in Vegas you can grab the left edge of the preview window and undock it to drap to your "other" window screen/monitor.

Email me at HighPeaksVideo@aol.com if you need some help with any of this. What OS are you running?

Craig H.