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OT: FX1/Z1U Output from timeline
I’m confused. After you ingest HDV footage into your Vegas 6 timeline, can you play from the timeline and monitor externally on an HDTV via the FX1 in real-time?
Pre-NAB I thought that you couldn
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No…. you cannot preview to an FX1/Z1U direct from the timeline. V6 did introduce a way for us to preview full-screen onto a second monitor. So if (for instance) you have a 24″ widescreen HD monitor (like I have) you can preview all the pixels to that screen.
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Right… I gotcha no direct previewing of HDV. The full screen preview feature, I’m aware of that so I guess that is the best bet for editing. Unless you go the DV proxy file route, then batch the full HDV later.
Just out of curiosity, Are you using a LCD 24″ HD?
Thanks for the reply!
Jeff
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[Jeffrey F. Krepner] “Just out of curiosity, Are you using a LCD 24″ HD?”
Yes…. I have a DELL 24″ 1920×1200
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Oh, cool. I just looked at that today. Looks nice, even has component ins.
Are you using the 24″ as your “windows secondary display?” I have a matrox multihead card and I did some testing with Vegas using one of my 21″ CRT monitors as the Vegas’s full screen display. Something just *looks* wrong with the picture compared to a regular NTSC display. Of course it’s just SD, but even some sample HDV footage just doesn’t look very high res.
If you don’t mind, what is your experience using an LCD as a 2nd display for previews? If good, how do you have it set up?
Thanks a mill!
Jeff
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I’m actually using it as my primary display… the extra real estate of the 24″ widescreen was too much of a temptation. It just didn’t seem right to have my 17″ LCD as primary and my 24″ as secondary. No doubt I could have moved all the Vegas windows around and re-position them to have the widescreen as the secondary… but I decided against that. I have not yet started on my HD editing in earnest. As soon as I get more into that I may re-configure as I will then definitely be using the widescreen as a full-screen preview of HD within V6. Either that…. or I’ll buy another 24″ 🙂
I did have to replace my old video card in order to support the 1920×1200 resolution. I suspect most of the newer cards will support that resolution… but I specifically went looking for the resolutions listed on the packaging.
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