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External monitor
HI,
I’m working with a MacBook Pro and FCP 5.
I want to do a remote edit at a clients office.
I am tryhing to hook up an external moitor through the external video adapter on the side of my MacBook.
I get a view of the desktop but cannot get it to to display the canvas view only.I have tried switching the eternal view under VIEW from none to All frames , turned everything on and off, but no success. I still just get the desktop displayed on the external monitor. Tried the Refresh A/V devices. Under Audio/Video settings i have tried mirroring on and and off, the setup is Apple Firewire NTSC (720×480).
If I go to Digital Cinema dekstop preview, i get full screen on the external, but also on the MacBook. I want to be able to edit on the mac and show the video on the external.
Any suggestions?
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7 Replies
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Go to System Preferences and in Displays switch off mirroring.
All the best,
Tom
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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
Hi Tom,
When I do this, I get a Mac screen on the external display, but still now video display on external. It just stays on the mac screen. Not the destop, but the standard mac blue background. I have made sure under View, External Video, All Frames. Still no success in getting playback to the external.
Suggestions please and thank you!
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Clarification on my last post. When I turned mirroring off in the System preferences, as Tom suggested, now I get a dual monitor setup as if I was doing a dual monitor edit. The cursor will go from screen to screen.
I need just video playback out to the external monitor.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
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Did you try:
VIEW > VIDEO OUT > REFRESH VIDEO DEVICES or TOGGLE LAST
Sometimes choosing one or both of these options a few times engages the monitor, essentially refreshing the connection, especially on first-time power-up.
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HI,
I have found that I was capturing in FCP5, Easy Set-up DV_NTSC 24P(23.98) Advanced pulldown.This setting does not allow the use of the external monitor.
I tried switching to DV-NTSC on the Easy set up and the external works fine.So the question is what ‘Easy’ setting should I use tp capture footage that was shot with a DVX 100 24 PA setting. The program will be viewed from a DVD to either a plasma or LCD screen. I want it to look it’s finest.
So do you ingest the footage in one setting in FCP 5 and then switch to DV NTSC for the edit, so the you and the client can view the footage on the external monitor?
Your thoughts?
Thank you!
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First, Tom W. or one of the other veterans are more experienced and qualified than I am to answer your concerns.
I’ve never worked with your camera or with 24P before, so anything I tell you is just a guess.
But in my experience with other formats, it’s been irrelevant to watch my NTSC monitor during capture, since the FCP interface/capture window on the computer monitor always took precedence in the capture chain over any external monitor.
I would think that, once you’ve ingested successfully, returning to DV-NTSC shouldn’t have any negative effect on your editing process, since that setting should be purely monitorial.
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Why not just preview out of the camera? since your using firewire anyway to capture, just take the output of your camera and hook that to an NTSC monitor.
hmm… I wonder what this button does…
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