Hello,
When using MPSP8 VideoEditor with 2 TFT screens, I place the Preview Window 'fullscreen' on the 2nd screen.
With 'Instant Play' mode, everything is OK (source and preview).
But with 'Preview Main Timeline" I have a problem :
- when starts : the preview file is well created/modified
- when playing, the window remains black
- when pausing, the picture corresponding to the position of the cursor is well shown.
When I replace the window on the 1st screen, everything is OK in both modes)
Is there a problem with my settings ? Or is it no possible to do better ?
Has someone encountered and solved the same problem ?
MSP8 with 2 displays
I don't see this behaviour. It may be a problem of the settings of your graphics card drivers not transmitting the overlay to the second monitor.
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Terry Stetler
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The trick is in the card having two hardware overlays, one for each display. Some have one hardware and one software, which often gums up the works, or they do the second one badly.
Many of my systems use Matrox cards (APVe, P-750 or Parhelia) because they have two hardware and one software overlay across three display heads. First three heads is COOL and their software overlay is almost as fast as other cards hardware.
If in dual display the third head can be used as a composite/S-Video preview display. Here its DVDMAX mode gives massive control over the previews output parameters.
Neatest trick: triplehead spanned. This is a 3840x1024 display across 3 displays. Talk about a long timeline
The APVe is notable because its a PCIe 16x and the third head can be put into either HD component or SD composite/S-Video mode. In SD mode it also has SD capture, but this isn't available in HD mode. The P-750 (cheaper) and Parhelia are AGP cards using a similar chipset.
These are NOT gamer cards but are intended for "productivity". 120 fps in some shoot-em-up isn't their thing.
Many of my systems use Matrox cards (APVe, P-750 or Parhelia) because they have two hardware and one software overlay across three display heads. First three heads is COOL and their software overlay is almost as fast as other cards hardware.
If in dual display the third head can be used as a composite/S-Video preview display. Here its DVDMAX mode gives massive control over the previews output parameters.
Neatest trick: triplehead spanned. This is a 3840x1024 display across 3 displays. Talk about a long timeline
The APVe is notable because its a PCIe 16x and the third head can be put into either HD component or SD composite/S-Video mode. In SD mode it also has SD capture, but this isn't available in HD mode. The P-750 (cheaper) and Parhelia are AGP cards using a similar chipset.
These are NOT gamer cards but are intended for "productivity". 120 fps in some shoot-em-up isn't their thing.
Terry Stetler
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gigi10
My question is not really about a problem with overlay.
Overlay works fine with "dual head" selected in videoeditor.
I've got a nvidia 6800GT GCard with 3 heads : DVI/VGA/S-video. My 2 screens arec conneted DVI and VGA. In the settings of the card is a position "autoconnexion" witch allows fullscreen video.
The problem is :
I usually work with 4 windows always displayed : preview - timeline - production library and effects manager.
If preview window is displayed on a screen and timeline on the other, the mode "instant play" is OK, but "main timeline" gives a black picture.
For the moment, I've placed :
- on the 1st screen : Preview window and main timeline
- on the 2nd screen : Production library and effects manager
When setting "dual head device" in 'playback options' , the 2nd screen becomes full screen video (but without cropping the borders like the TV sets)
and this layout works well, but with always the problem of enlarging when timeline and preview windows are on the the same screen.
Overlay works fine with "dual head" selected in videoeditor.
I've got a nvidia 6800GT GCard with 3 heads : DVI/VGA/S-video. My 2 screens arec conneted DVI and VGA. In the settings of the card is a position "autoconnexion" witch allows fullscreen video.
The problem is :
I usually work with 4 windows always displayed : preview - timeline - production library and effects manager.
If preview window is displayed on a screen and timeline on the other, the mode "instant play" is OK, but "main timeline" gives a black picture.
For the moment, I've placed :
- on the 1st screen : Preview window and main timeline
- on the 2nd screen : Production library and effects manager
When setting "dual head device" in 'playback options' , the 2nd screen becomes full screen video (but without cropping the borders like the TV sets)
and this layout works well, but with always the problem of enlarging when timeline and preview windows are on the the same screen.