At 09:37 AM 12/5/2011, BEDFORD NEIL wrote:
>I know where you are coming from, but doubt you can display 'nothing' above
>and below, if you see what I mean. If the setting is not in the monitor,
>then its a no no. VLC etc blank the unused pixels by software, not
>hardware, which I assume Adobe doesn't do...
Letterboxing is (as far as I know) always done by software somewhere.
Any monitor has to have color instructions for each pixel in the
display, even if it's just 0,0,0 for black. The monitor may have its
own software to specify black pixels in letterbox for an input whose
aspect ratio doesn't match the monitor's. Or in the case of a
computer connected to a monitor, the computer's display card may
create the letterbox, or the video program on the computer may create
the letterbox.
In any case, Glenn's solution (change Sequence Settings' Playback
Settings to Monitor 2) is exactly what I was looking for, and works
like a charm today once I rebooted my computer. When I play back a
sequence or a source clip, it appears on my second monitor in full
resolution, letterboxing above and below.
Whether or not it matches the quality of the final output or not
remains to be seen. The discussion thread Steve and Stanley pointed
me to in Adobe forums implies that it doesn't, that Premiere's
processing degrades the image somewhat on the playback monitor.
I'll have to do some tests to find out. But in the meantime, this is
much better than the reduced image I was getting in the playback panel.
Thanks for all your help,
Mike Boom
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