• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Desktop Preview on 2nd Video Card

  Posted by Jon Jivan on July 20, 2009 at 5:58 pm

  Apple currently requires you to run two video cards on the Mac Pro to run two 24” LED Cinema displays. If you didn’t know, this is because they don’t offer a video card with two mini display ports or a DVI to mini convertor.

  I want to run a desktop preview on the 2nd monitor/2nd video card but I get a white screen instead of the image. Is FCP incapable of sending the preview to the 2nd card or is there a fix around this?

  The canvas window plays fine on the 2nd monitor, and the desktop preview plays fine on the 1st (primary) monitor.

  Running Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 on OS X 10.5.7
  Two NVIDIA GeForce GT 120’s

  David Bogie replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  David Bogie

  July 21, 2009 at 3:12 pm

  Can’t answer myself, different configuration.
  We’ve see this issue come up often enough for there to be a good base of answers. Try searching google because the questions come up on other FCP forums, too.
  If you figure it out, know that if you run two cards with a display attached to both of them, FCP will NOT run a bunch of FxPlugs that are available from Motion. You will get a red “fialed to render” screen in the canvas.

  bogiesan

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