• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  weird problem

  Posted by Curraheee on June 1, 2007 at 7:30 am

  I’m sure I’ve just pushed a button or a keyboard shortcut I don’t know about or something, but I have kind of a weird problem and I don’t know how to explain it exactly. None of the clips I’ve placed in the timeline will show in the canvas-window any longer. For instance: I have a couple of images I use in my video which I have resized to take up just a part of the picture. When I drag the marker down the timeline to sort of preview the video, everything is just black and it just shows outlined squares where the pictures and video clips are supposed to be..
  Any ideas?

  And also one more question for you guys. I’ve used adobe premiere for a while, which lets you preview your project in the canvas-window without rendering the clips every single time you make a small adjustment to them. I’m pretty fresh with this program, is this not supported in Final Cut Pro? I’ve got v.5.1.4 by the way.

  Rafael Amador replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  June 1, 2007 at 10:34 am

  Hi curraheee,
  Click in your canvas and them hit the “w” key one or twice. You may have the canvas in ‘wireframe’ mode and don’t see the image.
  About the preview, you can have RT even if you have applied filters, resized, animated your clip or even set some text on top. But that depends on the computer you’ve got and how you have configured the RT options in FC.
  Cheers,
  rafael
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  Curraheee

  June 2, 2007 at 7:34 am

  Hey thanks rafalaos! Yeah it was in wireframe mode, ‘w’ a couple of times solved it 🙂
  I tried changing my RT options but apparently my MacBook Pro isn’t powerful enough.

  Thanks again for your help! 🙂
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  David Smith

  June 2, 2007 at 9:47 am

  [curraheee] “I tried changing my RT options but apparently my MacBook Pro isn’t powerful enough.”

  Curraheee, what are you trying to view? Your MbP should be plenty fast enough for most playback. Are you sure your sequence settings match the settings of the clips you put into it? I play back on a G4 Powerbook quite easily.

  Regards,
  David
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  Rafael Amador

  June 2, 2007 at 10:56 am

  As David says you should have a look to your set-ups. I’m working now with a five years old Ti-Book 667Mhz (with FC 5.1.2). I’ve got two layers cropped and with the CC-3w on top and I’ve got RT preview. I wish I would have a MacBook pro:-)
  Rafael

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