• Avid Media Composer

  playback video won’t play but audio does?

  Posted by Excbcer on January 11, 2006 at 12:19 am

  so I’m dumping a wack of footage into my iMac G5 with AVID DV Express and when I load a clip into the monitor, the audio plays but the video doesn’t? There is video there, but it won’t play.
  Default setting problem?
  Secondly (or firstly maybe) the footage is 16×9 24p…anything I can do on capture to see it in 16×9? It’s coming out standard and not 16×9 but I don’t see an option for 16×9 in the capture tool or digitiz settings?

  thanks all.
  M
  ps…I’m a media composer guy, this DV is new to me.

  Deep End digital replied 20 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Paul Peltekian

  January 11, 2006 at 9:56 am

  well, whether you’re working on a media composer or xpress pro, 16:9 is handle exactly the same way. it comes in stretched, and it’s edited stretched. if you want to output a letterbox version, you need apply the 16:9 effect to squeeze it back down. otherwise, your external monitor must be able to handle 16:9 by squeezing the image back down for you. by right-clicking or cmb clicking in your record monitor, you should be able to select 16:9. and that will physically squeeze your video only for preview and editing. it’s not what your final out will look like.

  hope this helps with that.

  as far as your problem with the video not playing but the audio does, could be a number of issues. can you give more details…
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  Alex Alexzander

  January 11, 2006 at 2:14 pm

  Perhaps you unselected videoduring capture, and ingested just the audio, and the timecode?

  -Alex
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  Deep End digital

  January 13, 2006 at 5:11 pm

  ITS A DRIVER ISSUE!

  GRAPHICS DRIVER??? i had this and got driver and it fixed it.
  Theres something about this on the AVID COMMUNITY FORUM.

  GO HERE!!!

  https://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/4408/ShowPost.aspx

  JAMES

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