Preview on second monitor

[Rick Mac]

[Mil Bogo] “I have connected a TV via my video camera and I could see the output on my TV – but the quality was really poor.”

The perview window in Vegas has selectable quality settings.
Look under preview quality in Vegas help for how to. This quality setting not only applies to your Vegas preview window, bit it also applies to your external monitor.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Mil Bogo]

I have have it set on high – but still quality was not good.

Judging by your answer you are saying it is possible to get good quality full screen preview on a second monitor?

I am not sure how it can work since the preview has limitation because it is not rendered. ie it looks OK if it is small – but full screen is a different story.

Your enlightenment would be appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

[Allen Zagel]

Hi
It may be going through your camera that is causing the problem. I’ve never done that. I have a Canopus (now Grass Valley) ADVC-100 (now 110) connected to my computer via firewire. My external monitor is a 13″ Sony TV the composit cables are onnected to the OUT portion of the converter. I personally prefer the Canopus, but there are other analog digital converters out there.

Going to my preview window in Vegas, quality setting to any of the best settings, (auto, half, full) I think gives you a ram preview which is like a temperorary render ‘on-he-fly’ so you should be looking at the same quality as if you rendered the project. Try undocking the preview window in Vegas and let it set by itself and see if that helps.

If I use any other preview setting than ‘best’ then I get a jumpy fuzzy preview which is a draft mode preview.

Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Rick Mac]

Mil,

You can get a high quality external preview using your camera as a converter. If you have your preview quality set to best/Full your picture should be very sharp, however your framerate might be low. Have you tried Best/Full? Mine looks good at Preview/Full (except on graphics) which I then set to Best/Full for a good look at that. Maybe your problem is in using your camera as a converter however many folks on the forum have good results doing it that way. I use a DataVideo Converter and I’m happy with it.

What can you tell us about your project setting, and your hardware, Camera, Video monitor.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377