realtime view on NTSC monitor

LR wrote on 6/8/2003, 3:45 PM

As I understand it, if you want to view the video you are editing in Vegas, you can connect your pc via firewire to a dv camera and feed video out to an ntsc monitor. I can do that, but I can get realtime playback. It take for the picture to "refresh itself". I get in effect snap shots but not a continuous and smooth flow of video off of my ntsc monitor. Can it be done? How?

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BillyBoy wrote on 6/8/2003, 4:19 PM

No Vegas can't playback at full frame rates unless you do nothing to the content, then what's the point?. If you add effects/filters, more tracks, etc.. no current CPU has the horsepower to keep up. Realtime in the sense used means you see the changes you make in real time, not that always play back at real time frame rates. You can get fairly close to real time playback (24 frames for PAL, 30 for NTSC) if you have a very fast CPU. Even if you don't, there's still RAM preview which does play back at true frame rates. Of course you'd need a ton of memory to playback a large section or just repeat the process over and over. That does not diminish how powerful Vegas is... it does much more in "real time" than your typical editor.

LR wrote on 6/9/2003, 12:31 PM

Thanks for the explanation. I am still getting used to this approach. I'm used to having a matrox board that plays back in real time.