Full Screen Preview on second LCD?
 

Is it possible to Preview your project full screen on a second LCD monitor I have hooked up?

Yes. Most of the video cards with two heads allow full screen video mode. You need to change some settings in the way the drivers work. Which kind of video card do you have?

ATI x700 with one VGA and one DVI. I used to use Vegas 6.0 and it has an external preview button within the application that toggles my second monitor to preview full screen. What's the workflow in Premiere?

Anyone? Is there a way to view a full screen preview via a second LCD or CRT Computer Monitor hooked to your video card, or is it Firewire only?

I don't know about your particular card, but this is for one of the ATI cards:

ATI RADEON
1. In Windows Display Properties, Click on the ‘Settings’ Tab
2. Select the second monitor in the ‘Display’ drop down menu
3. Be sure that the check box “Extend My Windows Desktop onto This Monitor”
is UNCHECKED.
4. Select the first monitor in the ‘Display’ drop down menu
5. Click on the ‘Advanced’ button to view the ATI Radeon Settings
6. Click on the ‘Overlay’ Tab
7. Click on ‘Clone Mode Options’
8. In ‘Overlay Display Mode’ select ‘Theatre Mode’
9. In ‘Set Video Aspect Ratio To’ select ‘Same As Source Video’
10. In ‘Display Device Aspect Ratio’ select the aspect ratio of the device you are
displaying to
11. Click on ‘Display’
12. Be sure both monitors are activated and designated correctly as either Primary
or Feature Monitor.

Thanks Steven,

So it's done from the graphic cards application instead of within Premiere. Premiere I assume is external preview via firewire only?

Right. Premiere Pro uses the firewire for preview, but the overlay is part of an application that should automatically provide you with a full screen preview.

I do not believe it is particularly a good idea. I prefer to see my movies using the exact number of pixels, not expanded past that artificially. And it is just too easy to use the firewire to a real monitor, either through the camera, or an external device. That provides a better view anyway.

Thanks Steven,

This is for HDV footage though, so an LCD is more beneficial to me, plus a lot less expensive

I just bought a house in FLorida, and have decided to merge the Computer room and Media room. So my 60" HDTV will be my new HDV monitor. All I need to do is explain to my wife that I need a new PC that can handle the new video cards that have component outputs.

In the meantime, you are correct, the LCD will just have to do.

[QUOTE=Steven Gotz]I just bought a house in FLorida, and have decided to merge the Computer room and Media room. So my 60" HDTV will be my new HDV monitor. QUOTE]


Now if your house were, say, in Port St. Lucie, so I could knock on your door for help with Premiere Pro! Anyway, welcome to Florida, what area are you in.

Mike

Sorry, it looks like about 140 miles from there to Clermont, which is just outside of Orlando. So maybe one of these days when you hit Disney World, we could meet up.

I have an ATI Radeon 9600 and Steve's tip work wonderfully for me but only whne playing movies in Windows Media Player. Probably Premiere Pro will have to signal the card to send the preview out to the 2nd monitor.

This is actually quite useful for color correction, etc. If you figure out how to put your premiere preview working let me know, or maybe I'm just missing something.

Thanks, it's a great tip!

I believe it requires Premiere Pro 1.5.1 - have you updated your software?

Make sure in your Premiere Pro playback settings that you have the overlay set to DirectX not GDI. Any footage that shows up in the preview monitor in Premiere should be displayed on your second monitor.

Steve:

What are you current computer specs while using Premirere Pro 1.5?

I would not want to edit DV with anything less than 2GHz and 1GB RAM

I would not want to edit HDV with less than 3HGz and 2GB RAM - and that is only if you have Aspect HD. Otherwise, it is time to get a fast 3.2 with Dual Core technology.

Right now I am running a Dell Precision 670 Workstation with the following guts:

Dual 3.0 gig Xeons
2 mb L2 cache
2 gigs of dual channel memory
Five scratch disks
Windows XP x64 bit Operating System which allows me up to 16 gig of ram.

Am I so far pretty future proofed with PPro 1.5 plus Video Collection?

I would say you are good for a while anyway.

At least a year. :)