Dual monitow setup for digital editing

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I've just been installing a video card & trying to set up dual monitors for
my video editing. I now have things so that I can drag windows etc. from
one screen to another. When I tried to play a video which was stored on the
hard drive & decided to drag the window so that the video would be playing
partially on both screens just to see what it looked like. One screen & had
the left part of the video playing OK but on the other screen all I got was
a black box equal in size to the window I had dragged. Any ideas as to
what's wrong? Could one screen be displaying in digital & the other just
using VGA? Both the video card has both a DVI & VGA connection & the
monitors each have both sorts of connections.


Thanks in advance

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"Videot" <videot@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> I've just been installing a video card & trying to set up dual monitors
for
> my video editing. I now have things so that I can drag windows etc. from
> one screen to another. When I tried to play a video which was stored on
the
> hard drive & decided to drag the window so that the video would be playing
> partially on both screens just to see what it looked like. One screen &
had
> the left part of the video playing OK but on the other screen all I got
was
> a black box equal in size to the window I had dragged. Any ideas as to
> what's wrong? Could one screen be displaying in digital & the other just
> using VGA? Both the video card has both a DVI & VGA connection & the
> monitors each have both sorts of connections.
>
>
> Thanks in advance

This is a video card/video driver issue.
Many video cards are set up so that you have to choose which monitor iw your
"primary" monitor. Look at display settings--advanced--displays.
See if there's a way to select which monitor is #1 and #2, etc.

Some video cards don't care which you use, and can feed both just fine, like
my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

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"Brian C. Baird" <nospam@please.no> wrote in message
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In article <3bxud.1004$2r.216@fed1read02>, "Mark²" <mjmorgan(lowest even
number here)@cox..net> says...
> Some video cards don't care which you use, and can feed both just fine,
like
> my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

That's my video card, too. It rocked pretty good on Half-Life 2, I must
say.
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It's a great card. The funny thing is...I'm not really into gaming. -But
before you say I wanted my money...

The 9800 Pro was one of the few with full hardware support of screen
rotation. I have a rotating 20.1" LCD that runs at 1600x1200. That card
will use all it's hardware power to run the screen at 1200x1600, which is
absolutely GREAT for Photoshopping portrait-orientation images. While there
are lesser cards that can do this, they had funky incompatibilities with my
monitor.