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AdobeCS5 and nVidia:  First Impressions Part 2.1

If you have been following my ongoing Adobe CS5/nVidia shakedown cruise (here’s Part 1, and here’s Part 2) you might have read my whiny cry:

The other thing I really miss is having a dedicated video output from the computer to a video monitor…. nVidia press contacts say the only way to use a second monitor for the Program output is to tear the Program monitor off the Premiere Pro program and maximize it on the second monitor

(Wow, my first blockquote!  But I digress.)

Turns out the nVidia guys were just about half-right.  Of course, that means they were more than half wrong, but who’s counting?  The essential clue came from reader Rashaanp who said:

Instead of tearing the Program Monitor window out of your current layout, you can try this

1) Click the “flyout” or wing menu of the Program Monitor (the upper right button)

2) On the drop down or menu, click the “Playback Settings’ option all the way on the bottom

3) In the Playback Settings window, under “Realtime Playback”, click External Device, then select your 2nd or 3rd or 4th LCD monitor or Plasma that’s hooked to a DVI or HDMI port of your PC/laptop

So now on the 2nd or whatever monitor, you’ll see the output of the Program Monitor (or Source Monitor as well)

When I followed these instructions, I got…bupkis.  Nada.  Nuthin’.  My “External Device” was not present.  But then I got to thinking…could this have to do with the fact that I was watching David Letterman on the monitor as the program was booting up?  In other words, since HDMI was not active on the LG HDTV at program start, might Premiere Pro just not have seen it?

Bingo.

I bailed out of Premiere Pro, and just to do the belt & suspenders thing, re-booted the whole computer to start from zero - with the LG HDTV in HDMI mode.

And there it was!  Beautiful real-time high-def playback on my monitor!  It feels great to solve a puzzling problem -tons of thanks to Rashaanp!

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DISCLOSURE:

NVIDIA sent me a Quadro 4800 card on extended loan to evaluate its performance with a review copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5 and report on my findings to other users, for good or ill…  and I’m going to call them as I see them. I paid for the HP Z800 out of my own pocket.

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Glad I could help. We appreciate the hard work that you and your staff does in producing this valuable content.  My colleagues and I have learned about tons of information via the PVC and other Internet resources

Regarding this Premiere Pro option,  before knowing this, I bought a Blackmagic HDMI intensity card to monitor on any HDMI lcd or plasma monitor.  But the blackmagic card would not work correctly with premiere sequences/timelines and outputting to a plasma/lcd.  So Premiere has had this built in functionality for a while for using any DVI/HDMI lcd monitor.  (say for DV, when you “outputted” your program monitor to your DV camcorder via firewire or DV deck which itself was hooked up to some TV or professional reference monitor).

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