You can turn this on in the Options Menu: "Always Preview".
You can also turn on Preview DV audio. Both of these are
turned off to avoid dropped frames in lower performance
systems, but if your system can handle it, turn 'em on.

Mike Dimitrovas wrote:
>>I am using the demo version of VideoFactory in order to
>>decide on the final purchase and overall compatibility
with
>>my hardware; Optura Pi, Dell 866Mhz, 256Mb Ram, TI OHCI
>>IEEE 1394 complicant card, 32 MB NVidia video card,
Windows
>>Me.
>>
>>All is great except that when I capture my clips from DV
>>via firewire, the preview screen blacks out and I have to
>>monitor the progress on the camera LCD screen. When I
stop
>>the capture, the preview screen comes back on. I find
this
>>annoying and I noticed that other packages such MGI
>>VideoWave and DO Intro/EditDV do not behave this way.
>>
>>Is this a compatibility issue with Windows Me, my capture
>>card or is this the way VideoFactory was designed?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Mike