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tserface wrote on 12/27/2001, 9:22 AM
You could do this, but you'd have really poor resolution on your monitor and probably wouldn't be able to read text, etc. on the TV. A better solution is to output though Firewire through your video camera or a analog to digital digital to analog device like the PowerR Director's Cut or the Sony DVMC-DA2.

www.powerr.com
http://dv411.com/sondvmcda2dv.html

A larger monitor may cost less. :)

Tom
HPV wrote on 12/27/2001, 6:14 PM
connect a TV-Set on the Video-Out of my grapficcard and see the preview windows of VV3 on the TV
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Sure. I use a Geforce II MX S-video output to a 13" S-video input TV. Looks just like the DV souce. But it is frame, not field output. So I flip a switch to watch the signal coming out OHCI thru my DV camera to check for jitter in stills and graphics.

Craig H.
BHP wrote on 12/31/2001, 12:20 AM
I bought a geforce2/TI based on what I had read on this forum, but I cannot get the preview monitor to display on the SVHS out. It is possible that I did not buy the right card. I compared geforce cards and it seemed they all had the same basic features. I have a Matrox G450 that I would like to have the preview out the same way as the media players display. I can have both worlds with that card. Any ideas about my problem?
Thanks
Control_Z wrote on 1/1/2002, 7:16 PM
I just tried this with my GF2 and all I get is a clone of my desktop - i.e., the whole VV screen.

Can you explain in simple terms how to do this properly?

P.S. The DV camera's on the capture/output computer, and it's my only one, so sometimes this would be a good solution.
HPV wrote on 1/2/2002, 1:34 PM
I bought a geforce2/TI based on what I had read on this forum, but I cannot get the preview monitor to display on the SVHS out.
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I don't have time right now to walk you thru it. I'll throw you a few tips though. I use Win. ME and run my 17" VGA monitor at 1152x864. Analog S-video monitor is set for 640x480.
Have you set up the card into twin-view mode?
Right click on the windows desktop screen and select properties. Select settings. Look for a twin-view tab.
Once you get two monitors to show up on the main settings window you can right click the new/analog monitor and activate it. Note, S-video cable must be plugged into Geforce card before it will activate.
Once working, click and drag (left edge) the Vegas preview window to new monitor area. Size as needed.

Craig H.
Control_Z wrote on 1/3/2002, 9:41 PM
Mine doesn't act anything like that. I can successfully clone or span the desktop horiz. or vertical, but there's no provision to set my desktop to one resolution and the analog monitor to another and drag a window to it.

Looks like I have the 1260 drivers installed. Maybe the 21xx drivers only allow this.?
HPV wrote on 1/3/2002, 10:07 PM
I just tried this with my GF2 and all I get is a clone of my desktop - i.e., the whole VV screen
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Might be a Windows 2000/XP thing? It works for me in ME. It works with the old and the new Nvidea drivers here with ME.

Craig H.
jorgir wrote on 1/4/2002, 11:00 AM
Could you explain whith details which model is your graphics card?, perhaps this will help.
Thanks.
Control_Z wrote on 1/4/2002, 1:23 PM
Me? It's a Leadtek Winfast GF2 MX - pretty much generic stuff.

I tried the 23xx detonator drivers from nvidia.com but they refuse to even see the TV, so I'm back to 1260 which is also apparently the *latest* drivers.

Any good reason why Nvidia can't just keep one single series of driver numbers so this is less confusing? :)
HPV wrote on 1/7/2002, 6:32 PM
Could you explain whith details which model is your graphics card?, perhaps this will help
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I think it's a Creative Geforce 2 MX card. Came with my Compaq 7000T P4. SVGA and S-video outputs. I'm running Nvidea drivers version 4.13.01.2183. Ones that came with it worked also. I don't remember what I did to activate dual monitors. I think it was a tab called twin-view. That doesn't show up now that it's set up.
I clicked on the second (S-video) monitor and set it to 4:3 TV aspect ratio under:

Advanced (or right click and select properties)
Geforce 2MX
Additional Properties
Overlay
Video Mirror Controls

Also under the Device Selection tab it's set for TV and format is NTSC-M.

Again, this is with Windows ME. I think I've heard that Windows 2K doesn't allow for some settings like this. Anyone know? XP?

Hope this helps,
Craig H.
Control_Z wrote on 1/8/2002, 1:15 AM
I've got all that. And it'll play movies just fine on the TV. What I can't get is the VV3 window to show over there all by itself.

Well, I suppose I _could_ if I was to 'span' the desktop, but I really want to keep my 1024X768 desktop on my computer monitor and that just doesn't happen.
HPV wrote on 1/8/2002, 1:23 AM
I've got all that. And it'll play movies just fine on the TV. What I can't get is the VV3 window to show over there all by itself.
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You know about the click and drag of the Vegas preview window ?
Hold down the left mouse button on the left boarder of the Vegas preview window and drag. Size as needed.

Craig H.
jorgir wrote on 1/9/2002, 5:55 AM
You mean your Geforce 2 mx support twinview, with only one vga output and one svideo output?, or it has two vga outputs and one svideo output?. I'm looking for a new graphic card, and there is no much documentation about this matter. On the other hand, how good is the frame rate in the video preview window, or tv set?.
Thanks.
Control_Z wrote on 1/9/2002, 10:24 PM
>Hold down the left mouse button on the left boarder of the Vegas preview window and drag.

No problem doing that. But it drags all over my VV3 window covering things up, never outside of it to a different screen.
jorgir wrote on 1/10/2002, 9:45 AM
You mean your Geforce 2 mx support twinview, with only one vga output and one svideo output?, or it has two vga outputs and one svideo output?. I'm looking for a new graphic card, and there is no much documentation about this matter. On the other hand, how good is the frame rate in the video preview window, or tv set?.
Thanks.
HPV wrote on 1/10/2002, 6:15 PM
You mean your Geforce 2 mx support twinview, with only one vga output and one svideo output?, or it has two vga outputs and one svideo output?.
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One vga and one s-video. I run the s-video at 640x480, which shows all of the action safe area of the 720x480 DV imagae of the Vegas preview screen. Frame rate is the same as on the vga monitor. About two frames a second faster than the OHCI output. Geforce S-video output is frame based, it won't show fields. So to check for jitter on stills, graphics and filters I use the OHCI output thru my Sony D8 camera. S-video switch box lets me bounce between the two on the same monitor.
I'm running Win. ME. Not sure about 2000 and/or XP doing two different resolutions. Anybody know about this?

Craig H.