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clips appear totally black in VIEWER window, but 100% fine in CANVAS & timeline
hi,
I’ve been working on my project in FCP7 for several weeks now. All of a sudden today, any clip i bring into the viewer appears as totally black. However, it is totally fine in the timeline and canvas window.
As per the viewer window, I can’t get any video whether i bring up the clip from the timeline or the browser.
Has anyone run across this issue? is there a simple fix?
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4 Replies
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Try deleting preferences.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los AngelesDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy forum.
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yes that worked, thank you David!
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FYI what most likely happened was that your viewer had been toggled away from “Image” mode.
Both the Viewer and the Canvas have various ways of displaying the image
look under the third of the small drop down menus at the top of the Canvas or Viewer to see them.
with either window selected, hitting the W key will toggle between:
Image, Image & Wireframe, and just Wireframe.Shift+W wil toggle the Alpha displays
Its relatively easy to hit the wrong key and have your Canvas or Viewer move to one of these display modes when you don’t intend it to.
so next time it happens just go up to that pulldown menu and re-set it.
of hit W a few times ☺EDIT TO ADD:
the W key also toggles the Canvas when you are in the Timelinecheers,
nick -
yeah i believe you’re right. I thought of that before trashing preferences, yet i somehow missed it.
All fine now though, thanks
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