[Yoyodyne]

o.k.

[Yoyodyne]

A few questions. When you say preview, are you previewing to a second monitor, firewire to a TV or using the little preview window in Vegas?

How are you watching the finished product?

Is there a way to check both of these with color bars and make sure they are calibrated?

[Yoyodyne]

“My graphics card is a Matrox Parhelia with the HD component output.”

Sorry I’m not much help – I looked at the Matrox stuff but since SLI motherboards and good video cards are so cheap I kind of “rolled my own” multi-head display. I have heard that the Matrox stuff and Vegas don’t get along but have no first hand experience.

[Yoyodyne]

Vegas has a “preview to second monitor feature” (forgive me if I’m talking about stuff you already know). All you need is an HD monitor hooked to a video card in your system and Vegas can send HD to that. Looks great and works really well, I’ve even had really good luck color correcting with it. (with help from the scopes of course)

Here is my set up:

2 -dual head Nvidia geforce 6800 PCI Express 16 cards

2-19 inch monitors for timeline
1-15 inch monitor for odds and ends
1- Dell 2405 for HD preview

Vegas can send the preview to any of these monitors but I use the Dell for obvious reasons – very cheap way to monitor HD. FYI I get Full res/full framerate playback of 24p Cineform from the JVC GY-HD100 – looks stunning of the Dell.

Hope this helps –

[Yoyodyne]

Just to chime in – I’ve got a JVC HD100 and have been really happy with it. The two things that really sold me on the camera was it’s “standard” form factor and focus assist.

[Yoyodyne]

My guess (hope) is that they have just tweaked Vegas so that anything dumped on the timeline previews better. As a happy user of Cineform I can’t wait to see if there is a performance boost with Vegas 7. I’m also guessing that mpeg-2 will still demand more proc. power to preview vs Cineform so Cineform may still be a good investment. Not to mention that it might still be the only way to capture 24p from the JVC hd100.

Probably best to wait and see though, of course if you need it now…

[Yoyodyne]

ASUS A8N SLI Premium

Yep, me too – thanks for posting your results cmallam. I have had this problem with this mobo as well, I will have to try upgrading the chipset drivers – was going to flash the bios too. Just waiting till’ I’m between projects so I don’t screw myself in case things get ugly 🙂

Was the driver installation painless? What kind of Sata problems were you having?

[Yoyodyne]

Is this by chance an Nforce chipset motherboard?

[Yoyodyne]

Yes – they are VERY cool! Good stuff!

[Yoyodyne]

Sorry to hear you are having trouble…

“An older Sound Blaster card (because my fancy M-Audio crackled and popped with Vegas).”

Boy – sounds like you have an old VIA chipset on that motherboard. IRQ conflict?

This sounds like a hardware problem to me, more system specs would be helpful but Vegas works on almost anything so obviously it should work for you. What type of chipset is on your motherboard? I had an old VIA chipset board, can’t remember the version, and had the exact same problems.

Also what type of firewire card?