• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HELP! “preview diabled”

  Posted by Mike Miller on April 14, 2008 at 4:01 pm

  hey all…

  i need to capture off of my panasonic ag-dv2500 (miniDV deck). just going from the minidv out on the back of the deck into the firewire on my macpro. i have deck control (of the miniDV) from the log and capture window on fcp, but, no picture, so, obviously, i cannot see what needs to be digitized. the window just shows me color bars with the message “preview disabled” on it. i do have the external video set to “all frames” and the video playback set to “digital cinema desktop preview – main”

  any ideas?
  thanks in advance!

  mike

  Mike Miller replied 18 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  April 14, 2008 at 4:06 pm

  Please give your full system specifications, what computer, what drives, what camera or deck, how everything’s connected, what settings are on the media, what settings you’re using in Final Cut, and finally what version of the software, of the OS, and of QT are you using?

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”
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  Mike Miller

  April 14, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  hey tom! i ended up turning off my aja io HD which i use to dig from my dbeta, then re-booting my mac, now all is working again. gremlins!

  any way, here’s some info regarding my system…Thanks!

  okay…
  Hardware Overview:

  Model Name: Mac Pro
  Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  Processor Speed: 3 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 2
  Total Number Of Cores: 8
  L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
  Memory: 3 GB
  Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
  Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B08
  SMC Version: 1.15f3

  FCP version 6 (part of FC Studio 2)

  mini DV deck = panasonic ag-dv2400 hooked up from deck’s dv connection to the mac pro’s firewire 400 connection

  OSX 10.5.2

  QT 7.4.1

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