Video overlay on second monitor

[Wookiepet2]

I thought I may be the only one with this problem of NO VIDEO OVERLAY on my PC screens in Prem pro 1.5, but hopefully somebody out there has the answer!!! I have tried the route of new custom settings, using anything but Canopus Realtime DV, ie Video for Windows, DV playback and HDV which works fine and I get overlay on my PC but NOTHING ON MY EXTERNAL TV MONITOR! Any advice????

[Ninetto Makavejev]

Hello,

yes, I know that frustrating feeling, but there is something fishy going on here, as quite a number of people, who know all about graphic card settings by-the-way, still cannot get PremPro to ouput full screen video overlay. Neither on CRT-monitors nor TV. A lot of end-users stretch their workspace over two screens, and think this is the same thing, but obviously it is not.

Sooo here is what I know: depending on your configuration, Premiere’s project pre-sets may or may not work. The earlier post referring to Evanbuster’s method (see Adobe’s official forum) proves this. His custom configured XML-preset was the only way I was able to get overlay output out of Premiere.

That said, there is of course the easy mistake of your playback settings being wrong. Somehow these seem to change “by themselve” with Premiere. Check them once,twice, three-times and more, to make sure Premiere is doing what you told it to do, i.e. output to the correct device.

The issue I have with people suggesting that you always should output via firewire and then into TV is simple. Firstly I do not want yet another device attached simply to convert a signal that Premiere should be able to output natively. Secondly, I prefer to see my image on high-quality computer monitors rather than mediocre TV, even if the end result will end up on TV. Thirdly, with firewire there is the annoying “LAG” effect experienced by many: even if your image/audio are in synch they do not necessarily correspond with the graphic interface within Premiere is showing you!

So those are my gripes. Premiere IS an awesome program with incredilbe flexibilty/work-flow, but like I said, these recent issues are so severe, I am willing to give up some features just so the basics at least will function solidly… i.e. I am now editing with Avid.

regards, n.m.

[Dennis Summers]

ninetto, I cannot tell you how happy I am to read your post and solution. I too have been pulling my hair out since I got a new system, with Premiere Pro on it (and an nVidia 1500 card) trying to do the same thing. Ironically, I checked with the Premiere forum and still couldn’t get a working solution. But yours worked perfectly! Thanx again. –ds