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Vegas 6
I can’t get the video to appear in my external monitor when I click on the ‘view on external monitor’ button. I checked the rca cable connections. They are connected correctly… video audio out of the HDV deck. Video audio into the external monitor. The device is connected with an i-link fire wire. Device is set as so. I even changed to new rca cables. The video deck feeding the external monitor is set to HDV.
I am so puzzeled over this – any clue on what else to check? It worked fine before when I was using regular DV deck. Also, for other users out there using the HDV capture function in Vegas 6… I can’t designate time code in and out because the window that says TC in TC out doesn’t highlight to make it usable. I can only capture by using the red capture button right before the piece I want to capture and then hit stop at the end of the piece I want. Is this normal? Also the duration of capture never appears in the duration window. But the video does get captured and put into the media manager. I’d appreciate it if anyone else can tell me this is normal or am I having a software problem.
Thanks! Elisa -
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You mentioned that it worked with a DV deck—What are you using now?
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Vegas will not ship HDV out via Firewire for live preview, as I understand it…although I’d be happy to be wrong.
Regards,
Doug Graham -
I’m using a Sony HDV deck.
Elisa -
Sfaik no editing app sends back HDV over firewire. Previewing requires some other arrangement, e.g. via graphics card to 2nd computer monitor or via dedicated hardware like Decklink / Aja.
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Only way out for your video is via a conversion box like Blackmagic etc. You can preview DV out via a box like the ADVC 300 or similar from Canopus.
As far as capturing is concerned, for HDV, you need to use the “Internal Capture” program and not the external one.
Vegas should see the deck without any problem – which deck is it??
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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Mike,
I’ve tried using a second monitor as a preview device…Dell 2405, hooked up via DVI to my dual-head graphics card. But the quality is pretty miserable, well below even SD video.
Any suggestions for improvement?
Regards,
Doug Graham -
Yea, monitoring video is always tricky, isn’t it.
I wonder if your flat panel + DVI combination is the problem – I’m not sure if the flat panel/LCD arrangement is ever better than a stop-gap. It seems very hard at present to get a decent HD video monitoring set-up unless you have a high-resolution CRT using HDTV color space, fed with an appropriate HDTV signal. Which, of course, is expensive.
I see you have a good graphics card, so you probably won’t be interested in the Parhelia APVe – which does claim to give HDV out .. I haven’t tried it, and don’t know whether it works well with Vegas, but the specs look good. https://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/video/news/archive_story/may2005/parhelia_apve.cfm
Have you tried borrowing a hi-def CRT or plasma screen and attaching it to the the component out from your Radeon card ..?
All best.
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Jeremy:
The deck I’m using is a Sony HDV 1080i DV DVCAM video deck. I am clicking on internal capture to capture HDV. Just seems wierd I can’t use TC in and out. Someone at Vegas today said in HDV it isn’t possible to use TC in and out???????????? Seems odd. The blackmagic box you had mentioned thanks.
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