Windows 7 with Larger Fonts

David Berkeley wrote on 3/10/2010, 3:04 PM
I am using Windows 7 with the display settings for Larger Fonts. -150%, My screen resolution is 1920x1080.
With this setting, applications including Vegas Pro 9 think that the screen resolution is actually 1280x720. If i set the preview window to be half the screen height, Vegas reports that the preview window is 491x360; even though the window is actually 720x540 physical pixels.
My concern is that Vegas is rendering video to 360 lines, and then the Windows video driver is stretching the video to fill 540 lines. So there is a loss of clarity, as well as two resizes.
I believe that in Windows XP and earlier, Vegas and applications actually see the true number of pixels; and render correctly.
Is Sony aware of this issue? Are they working on a fix?

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rs170a wrote on 3/10/2010, 5:48 PM
Is Sony aware of this issue?

My guess is no.

Are they working on a fix?

They're not the ones who chose the "Larger Fonts" setting.
IMO, this means that it's not their problem so I wouldn't expect them to come up with a fix.

Mike
DGrob wrote on 3/10/2010, 7:01 PM
Perhaps as an aside I'm using W7 with V9c 64bit on a laptop with 1920x1080 display. I had gone to larger fonts and wound up chasing icons that were miniscule in most of my GUIs. Thanks to John Cline I dropped my display to 1280x720 and reset my font size to 100%. Vegas workspace et al now look great to my old eyes.

With Project settings of 720x480, I get 360x240 preview and a 418x307 display. I think the final render is driven by the Project Settings, although both my preview and display settings are colored red for some reason.

I hope I'm following your question, don't know if this will help.

Darryl
David Berkeley wrote on 3/12/2010, 12:42 PM
In case anybody really cares about this issue, I did some more research.
I created a 1920x1080 bitmap with 1 pixel lines 1 pixel apart, both horizontal and vertical. I put this jgp file into a vegas project with settings for 1920x1080 video. I then rendered this as a 5 second video to wmv, 1920x1080.
My screen resolution is 1920x1200.
When using Small Fonts, it is possible to see the alternating lines clearly in Vegas, in Windows Media Player, and in Media Player Classic.
When using Large Fonts; Vegas and Media Player Classic, blur the lines together. Apparently Windows has fooled these programs into thinking the display is only 1280x800. HOWEVER, Windows Media Player renders the video file at full resolution.
Typical Microsoft, they change the underlying APIs of Windows and they tell their internal developers but they neglect to tell everyone else.
So if you are using Windows 7 with Larger fonts, non-microsoft software is going to think the actual screen size is smaller than it really is, and give blurry video.