I am, by no means, a technical person. I have a 6 month old Toshiba Satellite P25-S526 laptop which I use in my teaching. I do a lot of PowerPoint and often capture video clips to insert into the PP presentations.
I have two problems. First one - when I switch to dual monitor mode to be able to use a projector I have no problem until I come to a slide with a video. At this point the video signal does not make it to the projector. The audio is fine. In order for the video to show on the projector I have to toggle to the auxillary monitor (projector) only. The toggling process often kicks me out of slide show mode and makes me look real dumb (actually not too hard a task). When I toggle to the auxillary monitor my laptop screen goes black and I have to rely on controlling the presentation by watching it on the projected image. Not always ideal when teaching.
Second problem. I have a ADS Tech video capture device and use their CapWiz software. The software has a direct to disk feature which lets me copy video directly to the DVD burner in my computer. The problem is that the audio is not coordinated with the video. The audio is from 1 to 2 seconds behind the video.
It has been suggested that the audio and video drivers on my computer are outdated. In fact, they both have dates in the second half of 2003 whereas the ADS software was created in 2004 and contains Direct X (I think that's the term) controls which (supposedly) my drivers will not handle.
I would appreciate any input on this. I hope I am not the only person in the world to experience these problems.
Jeff T
I have two problems. First one - when I switch to dual monitor mode to be able to use a projector I have no problem until I come to a slide with a video. At this point the video signal does not make it to the projector. The audio is fine. In order for the video to show on the projector I have to toggle to the auxillary monitor (projector) only. The toggling process often kicks me out of slide show mode and makes me look real dumb (actually not too hard a task). When I toggle to the auxillary monitor my laptop screen goes black and I have to rely on controlling the presentation by watching it on the projected image. Not always ideal when teaching.
Second problem. I have a ADS Tech video capture device and use their CapWiz software. The software has a direct to disk feature which lets me copy video directly to the DVD burner in my computer. The problem is that the audio is not coordinated with the video. The audio is from 1 to 2 seconds behind the video.
It has been suggested that the audio and video drivers on my computer are outdated. In fact, they both have dates in the second half of 2003 whereas the ADS software was created in 2004 and contains Direct X (I think that's the term) controls which (supposedly) my drivers will not handle.
I would appreciate any input on this. I hope I am not the only person in the world to experience these problems.
Jeff T