Pre7- A Preview question.

Hi all,
Is there a way to preview what will be the end result on computer monitor, without burning a dvd? Would a video card allow me to add a small 13" TV output to monitor the end result? Many thanks!
Raj

Hi Steve,
I should have bought a regular computer, but instead I ended up getting a low profile Dell without realizing I can't use regular size PCI-e cards. So it has to be a low profile one. There are couple listed in Microcenter, which is nearby, so I don't have to pay shipping. They didn't have the PNY one you sugtested in low profile. Could you check these our for me?
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0315741
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0305869
Another things is that I just, may be a month ago, threw out a nice 13" TV so now I have to buy that as well. Boy I could kick myself,
or may be one of you could take that pleasure.
Thanks Steve for all your help!
Hi Nealeh and ATR,
I have only one monitor output, for the computer monitor. Not only that I have to buy a IEEE 1394, low profile off course, card as well to import the video from my Canon. The main idea is to see almost exactly what the file will play on real TV for almost a professional video. I will also try connecting the TV via video camera, without using video card.
Thank you for all your help.
Raj
P.S. You all make this world a better place to live and enjoy!

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PrepressPro1 wrote:
<snipped>... so if your looking for this forum to play detective and tell you who in your workflow set the elements to overprint, I don't think this can be done. I don't think I have ever seen Illustrator set any elements to overprint all by its self. <snipped>
Hi PrepressPro...
Many thanks for your earlier inputs, but not quite sure where you got the idea that i want someone or anyone to play detective... i've understood the Overprint problem... and moved on. If anything, maybe i was just musing and wondering if any particular action turns on "Overprint Fill"...
Or maybe, i was referring to the second question which has not been resolved yet... Quoting it below for easy reference:
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The other issue...
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Do you know what software the artwork was created in?
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Fields in PDF form are blank: Another Preview question...

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Another RAM preview question. CS6

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First of all: I'm German, I make mistakes!
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1. Is there a way within the AE interface to monitor the amount
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4. Is there a way to retain the processed frames of a RAM preview
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4. After Effects actually does exactly that! But it doesn't seem to know, if the layer is above or beneath the already rendered ones. Also if you change a keyframe it will re-render everything up to the next keyframes. But apart from that it does keep the rendered keyframes without re-rendering really, really unnecessary parts.
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Preview question-how to zoom an image to full screen

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Sorry if this is OT - Preview question

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Another preview question

I'm not quite sure what happened but I've lost the ability to preview in another browser. When I first set up Dreamweaver CS3 (ages ago), I could preview in IE, Mozilla and Safari. Now I'm down to just Safari -- and that's not going to cut it. What it's doing is if I select 'preview in Firefox' I get this "You have chosen to open" said file, "what do you want Firefox to do?" and my 2 choices are open or save. If I select open, it just goes through the loop again.
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Can someone clear this up a bit?
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2) "Now take the example of a larger camera, say a 8MP camera such as the Canon 1DMKII with an image size of 3504 by 2336 pixels. With the standard-sized set at 1680 pixels the full-size will again be purged (i.e. 3504/2=1752 pixels, which is greater than 1680 pixels)". This formula looks to be saying the long edge, correct?
Am I understanding this correctly? This looks to be saying;
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C) you only have one setting to control previews for standard and 1:1? (that being the "You have 4 choices: 1024, 1440, 1680 and 2048")
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Ian Lyons - 05:18am Aug 18, 2008 Pacific
1:1 or full-size previews take up a large amount of HD space, often many 10's of GB's. This is why building them on demand is an alternative to building them up front, and why you have options for auto or manually purging them. That said, it may not always be possible to delete 1:1 previews - more later.
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1:1 previews will not be deleted unless your chosen standard-sized preview is less than half the size of the full-sized preview. For example, you have images with pixel dimensions of 3072 by 2048 pixels (6MP camera such as Canon 10D) and have selected 1680 pixels for standard-sized previews. Since a 1680 pixel preview is more than half the size of the original the full-sized preview will be kept, even after using the purge 1:1 preview command. Had you chosen 1440 pixel for standard-sized previews then the full-sized would have been purged (i.e. 3072/2=1536, which is greater than 1440). Now take the example of a larger camera, say a 8MP camera such as the Canon 1DMKII with an image size of 3504 by 2336 pixels. With the standard-sized set at 1680 pixels the full-size will again be purged (i.e. 3504/2=1752 pixels, which is greater than 1680 pixels).
thanks,
Donnie

The chance of an answer is inversely proportional to the length of the posting. ;)
You do not indicate what your preview setting was while you accumulated a 12Gb preview folder. Nor do you indicate how many images are in your catalog.
Given your screen size of 1280 (laptp?) I would set the preview size to 1440 since this is still far less than half of your D3 images.
Cropping - I'll safely guess - has no effect on your preview size choices.
I confess that preview sizing and purging is confusing. I avoid the confusion by shouting "more disk, mama".

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Hi
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