REALTIME EXT. MONITOR PREVIEW

Agondonter wrote on 5/24/2004, 3:56 PM
Hi Gang,
Can anyone help me? I'm just now trying Vegas 5 for the 1st time... My problem is with the video output to an external NTSC monitor. Running the firewire signal out through my camcorder and to my ntsc monitor DOES NOT look like any kind of realtime quality I'm used to... it looks quite jumpy and a bit out of sync with the audio... Certainly nothing I could show a client...I come from a Pro-Editing background, where monitoring signals isn't a problem. Vegas 5 boasts this as a "new" feature: Real-time external monitor preview via i.LINK®/IEEE-1394... Is there something I can do to get TRUE realtime video playback for my clients to see?
Thanks to all in advance who can help me with this,
Rand

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 5/24/2004, 4:21 PM
The term "real time" in Vegas speak means a real time approximation
of how your rendered project will look. It is not advertised as or meant to be 29.997 frames per second, no bumps, no pauses, no dropped frames. It can be close to that though.

Depends on:

1. your computer's horsepower. A slow CPU can't handle it.
2. the qualtiy setting, best is bad, try preview (auto)
3. the complexity of what you're attempting to preview.

The plus side no other authoring tool regardless how much it costs AFASIK gives you a on-the-fly "real time" preview whn you make changes. Other so-called "pro" editors can't do it and fall flat on their face needing to RENDER first.
johnmeyer wrote on 5/24/2004, 4:57 PM
You should be able to get absolutely smooth video preview if you just put the video on the timeline and then view it. Are you saying that even this is not smooth? If not, as BillyBoy asked, how fast is your CPU?
wobblyboy wrote on 5/24/2004, 5:12 PM

Quality depends on how effects used. Color correction, and several effects will considerably effect preview quality on external monitor. Stright AVI should look just fine. If you want to show effect with better detail, use the render build to dynamic ram preview option. I usually don't show clients preview prior to rendering.
BrianStanding wrote on 5/25/2004, 12:01 PM
You can also trade off frame rate vs. resolution by choosing the settings from the drop-down list in the Preview box.

I find on my Athlon XP 2700 system that "Preview Full" gives an acceptable, full-frame-rate preview to a 14" external monitor for most simple effects (titles, fades, etc.). I use "Good Full" for checking color correction, then I usually switch back to "Preview" once I'm satisfied with color tweaks.

Again, if you are not getting full-frame-rate preview on unaltered DV events, you probably have some configuration issues.