[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Hi Jeditdv

Thanks very much for your quick reply. Problem sorted.

Cheers
Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Gary

Thanks very much for your help.

Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Gary

Thanks very much for your help. I have taken your last option and copied the media button and it works fine.

One last point – After clicking the subtitles button and watching the video in preview mode and then returning to the menu, the start button is always highlighted.

How can I get the subtitles button to be highlighted when returning to the menu instead of the start button, as I want the viewer to know that they are still in subtitle mode.

I have tried all the button navigation options and end menu without success.

Thanks
Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Hi

I just wanted to say thank you to all those who tried to help me.

I am pleased to say that I finally got the external monitor working and the picture showing in the camcorder.

The “A/V DV OUT” setting should have been set to “OFF” within the camcorder. I suppose it’s logical when I look back on it as the signal will have to go “OUT” of the camcorder when capturing to the hard drive and then set to “OFF” so that the signal (time line) can come back up the fire wire to the camcorder.

I did try this earlier, I think on Jeremy’s advice but for what ever reason it didn’t seem to work then but I’m very grateful for everybodies help.

Many thanks
Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Jeditdv

Thanks for putting me in the picture (pardon the pun)! The time line of my finished project had transitions and other generated media which is when I got “Frame Recompressed”. Now I know why!

To prove your point I down loaded a fresh clip without any transitions or any other alteration and just got the “Preview on external monitor”. Thanks for explaining.

Sorry I didn’t make myself clear but I didn’t have an MPEG 2 project on the time line and therefore was not trying to edit it. It’s just that the time line had been rendered to MPEG 2 after my project was finished. The resulting MPEG 2 file is in my videos folder.

Thanks
Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Jeditdv

Thanks for putting me in the picture (pardon the pun)! The time line of my finished project had transitions and other generated media which is when I got “Frame Recompressed”. Now I know why!

To prove your point I down loaded a fresh clip without any transitions or any other alteration and just got the “Preview on external monitor”. Thanks for explaining.

Sorry I didn’t make myself clear but I didn’t have an MPEG 2 project on the time line and therefore was not trying to edit it. It’s just that the time line had been rendered to MPEG 2 after my project was finished. The resulting MPEG 2 file is in my videos folder.

Thanks
Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Hi Mahesh

Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, both the PAL settings were set correctly in File>properties and Options>preferences>video device.

I also tried switching between PAL DV and PAL DV Widescreen a few times, as in both modes above but still no joy.

As you say it looks like I don’t have DV-In on this camcorder. I am going to call Sony UK tomorrow to find out.

Thanks
Steve

[stevelearning Steve (learning)]

Hi Folks

First can I say thank you very much for such a friendly and informed response. I was really encouraged to receive such support from my first post on this forum!

Two further things I have noticed when playing the time line with an external monitor connected and everything enabled. I just get a black screen in the preview window of Vegas which says – (Preview in external monitor). If doing the same thing with my finished project which has been rendered to MPEG 2 but is still on the time line as a Veg. file I get the same message ( Preview in external monitor) with the words (Frame recompressed) in red letters underneath.

Is this normal or is Vegas just telling me that the time line has be recompressed to MPEG 2?

Thanks very much for all those who tried to help:

Gary – I am afraid the answer to your question is no!

Mahesh – I did try printing a small section of tape to the time line but the picture did not appear in the LCD screen. I also got an error message saying that it could not print to tape as ‘An error occurred while creating the media file’ and
‘No compatible video codec was found’.

Jeremy – Sorry if I am a bit naive but I don’t know what you mean by the IO setting in relation to the Ilink. If you could clarify I would be grateful and I will check it out.

Guyb – You could be right. I will check with Sony UK on Monday to find out!

Thanks again for all your help.

Steve