• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  playback issues

  Posted by Mike Weiner on March 7, 2011 at 10:45 pm

  I have the latest and greatest version of FCP on my brand new Mac Pro. Cool!

  I go to play a video in the sequence, and I get crazy artificating from the desktop, as if icons from the desktop were burned into my FCP client and sequence windows, BUT, when I do frame-by-frame, I can see the video perfectly, which leads me to believe it isn’t a codec issue but a playback one. I cannot see the video playing. The videos are all rendered out too.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks!

  Mike Weiner replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  March 7, 2011 at 10:51 pm

  What is the format of your video?
  What are your sequence settings?
  What Hard Drive are you playing the media from?

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Mike Weiner

  March 7, 2011 at 11:16 pm

  Format doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve tried FLV, MOV, MP4, etc. and even images and even audio (i.e. — mp3)

  I’m playing the media from an internal harddrive (not system drive, but rather an extra drive on my system).

  And it isn’t always the desktop images that I see, a mp4 I was just playing was strobing. Sometimes I see a burn in from my screensaver.

  The sequence settings for my strobing mp4 I just mentioned are:

  1280×720 HDTV 720p 16:9 sq. pix, 24 fps, h.264 compressor @ 100% quality (though same effect using Photo – JPEG), 48 kHz, 16-bit channel grouped.

  I have always render in RGB, with normal motion filtering quality. 2 Audio Outputs, Frame rate @ 100% of sequence editing timebase, and resolution 100% of sequence frame size, render codec same as sequence codec, and quality of master templates and motion projects is normal (unchecked: always use best quality when rendering movies).

  Video playback occurs through the Digital Cinema Desktop Preview, though I don’t have a digital Cinema monitor, so I don’t know if that matters. External video is off. Audio playback is default. I have no issues playing audio, it is just the video. Argh.

  Thanks!
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  Mike Weiner

  March 8, 2011 at 5:31 pm

  My guess is that it has something to do with my video card NVIDIA Quadro 4000, my playback settings, or my codec settings. All of a sudden, when I used my Black Magic card to hook up a bad external monitor via component, I was able to see more videos. I’m not having issues playing DV QT files, or at least the 4 i’ve tried, and one sequence that has a mp4 H.264 in it. Another sequence, similar settings, same file, I am having issues. BUT, when I change the render codecs, I am able to see video playing in real time (i.e. — Photo-JPEG though choppy, Uncompressed 10-bit, Apple Pro Res 422 HQ, XDCam 720p 60 Mb/s, and even Avid DV, though 720p 24fps footage, etc.).

  This all brings me to my next question: is there some plugin that I need to be able to use the h.264 codec engine in FCP?

  Thanks!

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