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canvas not showing effects??
Hey Guys, I am trying to apply g film effects to clips on my time line and they are going into the filters window in the viewer and showing in the video window of the viewer but not in the canvas, and I am not getting the red render bar above the clips, same thing is happening when I apply motion opacity to text clips. Is it a canvas setting ?? I just upgraded from a g4 pbook to a new 20″ imac, everything was working fine in the powerbook, could it be a intel issue ?
Thanks,
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[adamdodd] “I just upgraded from a g4 pbook to a new 20″ imac, everything was working fine in the powerbook, could it be a intel issue ?”
Not an Intel issue. We’re running the MacPro and keep in mind, FCP is Univseral Binary now.
Make sure you have your Canvas set to “Fit to Window” first.
If that doesn’t fix it, start by trashing the FCP prefs.
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Make sure you are applying it to the sequence clip, and not the browser clip… edit the clip into a sequnece, then double click it to open that sequence clip in the Viewer, then apply the effect.
Jerry
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Thanks guys, tried those things, no joy. I just tried to do some color correction with the inbuilt 3 way corrector, apply a blur and could not get the canvas or my preview monitor to show the image effects, only can see it in the viewer vid window, seems I cant get any filters to work on there, I am using the same method of application as I always have, double click the clip in the time line, then throw the filter in the filter window of the viewer.
Earlier today I managed to apply some of the g filters by copying attributes to clips, which worked a few times then for some reason just stopped. Is there a render setting I need to change, I cant remember if the clips I managed to apply the filters to were in the same sequnce then I changed sequences and tried to do it to clips in a sequence that had different settings…
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Try trashing your preference file for FCP. Sometimes I’ve seen FCP make me move the playhead a bit to update the filter change in the Canvas, might try that too.
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Yeah the playhead thing I was having to do also, but it is beyond that, Iam on a new machine and have not set any prefs yet, would I still need to trash it ?? I have figured out a work around though, I dont know why it is working but it is. I am creating a new sequence and pasting in the media from the sequence I am having probs with, I have to render the whole sequnce again, my sequences are only 5 min max long, but it is doing the trick for me.
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