• Blackmagic Design

  Broadcast monitor not updating – DV timeline- can’t scrub

  Posted by David Eells on October 9, 2005 at 2:35 pm

  I’m in the middle of a couple of FCP projects and I’m having a problem with my broadcast monitor. When I’m monitoring video from the viewer, everything is fine. But when I’m on the canvas the monitor won’t update until I stop scrubbing. It plays fine, but won’t scrub.

  I’ve searched the forums and have tried:
  Choosing “Fit to Window”
  Choosing “Fit All”
  Choosing “All Frames”
  Choosing “Refresh AV Devices”
  Checking that clip and sequence settings match
  FCP Rescue
  Disk Utility
  Mac Janitor
  Disk Warrior

  I have this behavior on a project with media on an internal drive as well as on an external drive.

  FCP 4.5
  Decklink Extreme
  OSX 10.3.9
  G5 1.8 DP with 1.5 GB

  Sean Lander replied 20 years, 7 months ago 6 Members · 11 Replies
• 11 Replies

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  David Roth weiss

  October 10, 2005 at 1:33 am

  You probably accidently hit the button that toggles “wireframe” on. Make sure this is not on and you shoyld be good to go.

  DRW
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  David Eells

  October 10, 2005 at 1:54 am

  Thanks, but it’s not that.

  Also, since my first post, I’ve also reverted to QT 6.5 from 7.0.2 and re-installed FCD 4.5. Still no joy.
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  David Eells

  October 10, 2005 at 3:20 pm

  …and I’ve installed the 4.8.1 Black Magic driver
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  David Eells

  October 10, 2005 at 4:06 pm

  OK, so I’ve created a new account and everything is fine there. So do I just abandon the other user account, carefully constructed over many months? Or can I fix this in my preferred user?

  Let me stress again that it’s the broadcast monitor that can’t scrub – the viewer window itself works correctly. That’s why I’m posting here in the Blackmagic forum.
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  Kristian Lam

  October 11, 2005 at 5:29 am

  Hi,

  If the problem goes away with a new account, it’s an indication of something currpted settings in the old one.

  Did you run the “Uninstall Blackmagic” tool before reinstalling the 4.8.1 drivers?

  regards

  Kristian
  Blackmagic Design
• 

  Olivier Jean

  October 11, 2005 at 12:47 pm

  hi,

  has your dual 1.8GHz G5 pci-x ?

  Regards
  Olivier Jean
  Powermedia Systems
  Sydney Australia
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  David Eells

  October 12, 2005 at 1:50 am

  Kristian –

  Yes, I ran the uninstall tool before installing the 4.8.1 drivers.

  Olivier –

  My recollection is yes, I have PCI-X, but it’s not clear from the “About this Mac” dropdown, so I’m not completely sure.
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  Robin

  October 12, 2005 at 11:46 am

  Have you tried disk utilities repair permissions? You might have some wierdness going on. Also there’s a useful little gadget called cocktail which will clear ram cache and get rid of lots of grotty little files that accumulate.
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  Olivier Jean

  October 13, 2005 at 1:38 pm

  ok

  check if you have 8 ram slots, or
  open the G5’s door, at the base of the G5
  you should see the specs of the G5… in the end if should
  say pci-x.

  Regards
  Olivier Jean
  Powermedia Systems
  Sydney Australia
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  David Eells

  October 17, 2005 at 10:19 pm

  Yes. 8 rams slots. PCI-X. Now what?

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