• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Effects Plugins go blank

  Posted by Nick Rodrigues on May 17, 2010 at 6:25 pm

  Couple questions….

  When droppings plugin effects (such as Boris or Sapphire) sometimes it will make the screen go blank then I have to restart FCP 7. If blank, and I render blank, it comes out…..blank… I’m wondering if this is my graphics card?

  Mac Pro 2009 “Nehelem”
  2.26 2×4-core
  NVIDIA GT 120
  12GB RAM
  Internal RAID-0 (Software) Disktester @ 350 MB/sec read/write using 4x 1TB WD Caviar Black
  Editing in ProRes LT 24p 1920×1080

  While I’m here, might as well as another question… 3 monitors in FCP… I know it doesnt support it, but I was considering a BlackMagic (or other if recommended) to output HDMI to a40″ LED LCD… If I do that, am I REALLY choking that GT 120 graphics card? My goal is to use that LCD as a playback for FCP, but also as a 3rd extended monitor when not using FCP… Would that mean I need a Black Magic AND another Graphics card?

  Thanks folks

  Nick Rodrigues replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Matt Mullen

  May 19, 2010 at 3:08 pm

  Have you tried trashing your FCP Cache files:

  To do so go to the “GO” menu in finder and choose home. Then navigate to Library> Preferences> Final Cut Pro User Data. Trash the “Final Cut Pro OBJ Cache” and “Final Cut Pro Prof Cache”
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  Nick Rodrigues

  May 20, 2010 at 12:59 am

  Yeah, I forgot to mention that. No luck…

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