Resize the preview window = pixalted video preview?

shogo wrote on 12/7/2002, 1:30 AM

Hi I just downloaded the demo and been playing with it. I have noticed something weird sometimes for no reason the preview window gets pixalated like I adjusted the preview quality to draft. It does it any time I slide the timeline area down to see my movies better. The only I have found around it is to set it too "Display at project size" and then back off. Just wanted to know if that is normal?

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/7/2002, 7:10 AM

Hi Shogo,

You will get the best previews if the viewer is an even divisor (like half or quarter size), and "square pixels" is not selected.

That said, some users have reported that resizing the preview requires docking or un-docking (or toggle of "project size") to clear the viewer. Not a big bug, but happens occassionally.

HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

BillyBoy wrote on 12/7/2002, 10:26 PM

Your best view will be through a external monitor fed from a firewire port to your digital camera if you have one.

tailgait wrote on 12/7/2002, 11:39 PM

When I use an external monitor feed it is always compressed or pixilized. The only way I can get a clear picture is to render everything. This is frustrating me. Any clues?

HPV wrote on 12/8/2002, 3:34 AM

Something must be funky in your guys graphics card settings. Or computer settings.
Nothing but clear sailing here with a P4 1.3 and 128mb rdram. No display corruption at any preview quality setting. Yes, draft gets some jaggies, but it's not much.
I do have a stuttering OHCI output, but I'm sure that is the ol' Compaqs fault. Geforce MX2 graphics card Svideo output is my main "preview window" editing screen. Frame rate smokes OHCI output. Not perfect (640x480 progressive with good color & luma match), but works for 95% of my editing. And oh so easy (progressive) on the eyes. Switch box (OHCI ext. monitor) for interlace checks at "good" quality for jitter/contrast and such.
Please share more info to your problems.

Craig H.

Erk wrote on 12/8/2002, 6:43 AM

Tailgate, perhaps you've doublechecked these already, but here's some things I sometimes forget when trying to get a smooth preview on my TV:

-disable all FX; there's a global bypass button on top of Vegas' preview window

-make sure all the level of all tracks is set to 100 (be nice to have a "lock" feature on these, as its easy to accidently slide them to <100)

There's probably a few other things that I forget sometimes, but these are off the top of my head. Sorry if these are not relevant.

G

tailgait wrote on 12/8/2002, 1:57 PM

Many thanks!