Thanks for the quick reply Gary.
I dont follow about working in native resolution not making the CPU work so hard. My understanding and experience is that in order to increase the frame rate you reduce the size of the preview resolution to half or quarter. If I run at Full (native), the frame rate is always lower in my case.
I have got the secondary display working now. I am only getting around 10 fps running Full HD res. Dropping the res to half – I get around 19 to 20 fps.
This project will be downconverted to SD and encoded to SD DVD so I’m not bothered about viewing HD during post, I prefer to work with a proper PAL output to CRT PAL monitor rather than a computer LCD display. However, I would make do with the secondary monitor display if I could get full 25fps frame rate.
Regards
Mark