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BillyBoy wrote on 2/22/2003, 8:50 PM
Yes, but no audio. The audio will still play through you PC at more or less be in sync if you're not needing down to the 100th of a second or other extreme sync, you can also run a seperate feed to your external monitor, (get a "Y" adaptor) but why?
beatnik wrote on 2/23/2003, 10:06 PM

What kind of a cable would I need to connect to the external tv monitor?
Jason_Abbott wrote on 2/23/2003, 10:14 PM
That depends on your sound card and monitor. My sound card has 1/4" TRS outs and the TV (I don't have a true broadcast monitor) has RCA, so I have a cable with these ends.
BillyBoy wrote on 2/23/2003, 10:21 PM
To connect a external monitor you need a firewire card, and either a digital camera or a black box that takes cares of the signal. The cable depends on your device.
For example my camera requires a 4 pin firewire cable while the firewire card needs a 6 pin (or 8?)
mysterious wrote on 3/12/2003, 10:39 PM
I thought the firewire cable was supposed to carry both audio and video. Why is it that I get only video and NO AUDIO on my external monitor?
Chienworks wrote on 3/13/2003, 6:47 AM
That's one of the mysteries of Vegas, and you're not the first one to ask. You will get both video and audio when printing to tape, but previewing is video only.
BillyBoy wrote on 3/13/2003, 8:49 AM
Just a guess... why have a second stream for audio when you can already here it from your PC speakers? That would only further slow down the 'real time' playback speed. If you must do it like I said, very simple to add a "Y" adapter from you audio out and feed it to your external monitor.
FuTz wrote on 3/13/2003, 9:22 AM
Great. After reading this "Xth" post regarding external previewing, I decided I could try again considering I just installed Vegas4. And guess what? I plugged my camera thru FireWire output and as soon as I turn the cam on, the whole V4 app freezes. WhY ??? And I haven't plugged my TV set to the cam yet; I was just checking if I could see something in the cam's lcd screen.
So far, ext preview worked once for a while around one year ago with VV3 for me. I unplugged it then when I did the exact same thing to set it back later it never worked again... In fact, it gets so much on my nerves that I never try to get through the entire process of debugging the whole thing. I imagine one day I'll wake up and decide to get through it 'til I drop...
BillyBoy wrote on 3/13/2003, 10:50 AM
Its a Windows thing...

At best support for firewire devices is shakey in Windows. Complain to MICROSOFT.
Lots of luck.
FuTz wrote on 3/13/2003, 10:58 AM
At least, if we could just use a TV Out graphic card option... but the preview window in Vegas isn't taken in charge by the system as a "common player" so it doesn't work either...
Yes, writing to Microsoft could be a good idea.
FuTz wrote on 3/13/2003, 12:01 PM
Ok. I re-installed DirectX 9 on my computer and the preview option came back BUT I have to "build dynamic RAMs" to get decent previews otherwise I get these gray squares and pops'n'cracks in sound.
Well, that's about it. I'll try switching the preview to "draft" quality which I don't really like just to see if it works a little better.
But I'd still like to get the preview window access to my DualHead card so I could preview through my graphic card instead of 1394 (or should I say "697" which is **half** of 1394?) ;)
robertp wrote on 3/13/2003, 2:08 PM
Just wondering. Did you attach the audio cables from the deck to the TV? Firewire does export both audio and video at the same time. I have had no problems with it ever. Plus no one asked if you forgot to attach the audio cables. I know I always forget something.
Chienworks wrote on 3/13/2003, 8:16 PM
Robert, audio is only sent through the firewire cable when printing to tape. It is NOT sent when previewing from the timeline, trimmer, or media pool.
robertp wrote on 3/14/2003, 7:24 PM
That sucks. I know in dealing with Premiere and Final Cut Pro that they both allow the user to record everything and see everything when playing it back out. It doesnt take a print to tape commad. Sounds like it is a program issue. Thats to bad.