Hey,
I haven't used the external preview function in Vegas in ages -- been encoding for the web exclusively lately -- but about two weeks ago, just before sending a DVD I'd made off to a friend, I checked the MPEG from Vegas's timeline out on my external monitor. Not only was it waayyy oversaturated and dark, the monitor flickered repeatedly.
In the time that's passed since I last used external preview, I've added all sorts of FW devices to my setup...and so, after some fiddling, I figured out what was causing it -- drive seeking/access during the preview over the same firewire bus -- I was using an Audigy with a 5-pot hub, to which was connected my three external cases, my deck, and a CF card reader. When I shut down the other devices, and moved the media to an external drive, the preview was rock-solid.
I picked up a SIIG card shortly after this, and put the three drives on the SIIG card, leaving the hub on the Audigy with my deck and CF reader connected to it. This lessens the problem, but does not eliminate it entirely.
What's the troubleshooting approach one takes with this issue? It's not like I'm about to power down my FW drives whenever I need to go to external preview -- sometimes the media I'm previewing is on them.
Is there an IRQ setting I could adjust?
Any advice would be great...
- jim
I haven't used the external preview function in Vegas in ages -- been encoding for the web exclusively lately -- but about two weeks ago, just before sending a DVD I'd made off to a friend, I checked the MPEG from Vegas's timeline out on my external monitor. Not only was it waayyy oversaturated and dark, the monitor flickered repeatedly.
In the time that's passed since I last used external preview, I've added all sorts of FW devices to my setup...and so, after some fiddling, I figured out what was causing it -- drive seeking/access during the preview over the same firewire bus -- I was using an Audigy with a 5-pot hub, to which was connected my three external cases, my deck, and a CF card reader. When I shut down the other devices, and moved the media to an external drive, the preview was rock-solid.
I picked up a SIIG card shortly after this, and put the three drives on the SIIG card, leaving the hub on the Audigy with my deck and CF reader connected to it. This lessens the problem, but does not eliminate it entirely.
What's the troubleshooting approach one takes with this issue? It's not like I'm about to power down my FW drives whenever I need to go to external preview -- sometimes the media I'm previewing is on them.
Is there an IRQ setting I could adjust?
Any advice would be great...
- jim