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Don’t love Vegas monitor output….
Am I nuts or is there no way to go out from Vegas to an external monitor other than through firewire at standard definition?
I’m used to Premiere Pro giving me real high def monitoring through the component outs on my Matrox Parhelia. This was my first night with Vegas so hopefully I’m missing something. Anybody know a way to go out HD without popping for a Xena or Blackmagic board?
Can Vegas be configured to support the native hardware capabilities of the Parhelia? If not, using Vegas with an XDCAM HD isn’t going to be nearly as fun as I thought. Or, arrggghhh, I’ll have to get a Xena or Black Magic.
Tip
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it worked trough “tv out” plugin with matrox p750.
but doesn’t work with parhelia APVe.gordan
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That is horrible. So you pretty much have to get a Xena to see what you’re doing. Bummer. Thanks for the response!
Tip
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Vegas has a “preview to second monitor feature” (forgive me if I’m talking about stuff you already know). All you need is an HD monitor hooked to a video card in your system and Vegas can send HD to that. Looks great and works really well, I’ve even had really good luck color correcting with it. (with help from the scopes of course)
Here is my set up:
2 -dual head Nvidia geforce 6800 PCI Express 16 cards
2-19 inch monitors for timeline
1-15 inch monitor for odds and ends
1- Dell 2405 for HD previewVegas can send the preview to any of these monitors but I use the Dell for obvious reasons – very cheap way to monitor HD. FYI I get Full res/full framerate playback of 24p Cineform from the JVC GY-HD100 – looks stunning of the Dell.
Hope this helps –
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I sent the preview to a second monitor and it didn’t look like what I get from Premiere/Cineform. I just captured a minute or so of video as I’ve only had Vegas for a day or two now. My graphics card is a Matrox Parhelia with the HD component output. I’ve got the HD monitor working in Vegas but only in SD after going to my deck as a firewire signaland then out as HD oomponent. very soft SD picture though. Thanks for your post and in avance for for any other help you can give.
Tip
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[Tip McPartland] “working in Vegas but only in SD after going to my deck as a firewire signaland then out as HD oomponent. very soft SD picture though”
What preview mode are you using? How does it look at “Good (Full)” or “Best (Full)”?
Edward Troxel
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“My graphics card is a Matrox Parhelia with the HD component output.”
Sorry I’m not much help – I looked at the Matrox stuff but since SLI motherboards and good video cards are so cheap I kind of “rolled my own” multi-head display. I have heard that the Matrox stuff and Vegas don’t get along but have no first hand experience.
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Definitly, going out via firewire to a deck and then to anything will only give you SD. Vegas is sending DV25 out the firewire port.
Maybe you’re out of luck but the preview on secondary display feature is supposed to put the preview up on a second monitor. If your component output counts then Vegas ought to be able to output there.
It’d certainly work if you were feeding the monitor through a VGA port (which is an rgb output anyway).
I don’t have a setup like what you’re describing but this seems like the most likely way to go.
Rob Mack
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Windows Secondary Display works fine. I have a 1600 X 1200 secondary display and the HD is however I set the preview window. I also have a 1920 X 1080 monitor and have used it the same way – full resolution. I’m using Nvidia. It isn’t Vegas’ fault.
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