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Digital Cinema Desktop on 2nd monitor disappeared
My Digital Cinema Desktop has disappeared from the View > Video Playback list … except the one for the main monitor, which is not what I want of course.
I think it happened after I had a Zoom H4 connected via USB as an audio interface for doing a voiceover – at least that is the only thing I can think of that might have caused the issue.
I read a lot of post about this disppearance, but none of them had a solution – Anybody any idea?
Jaap
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7 Replies
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What happens when you press “Command-F12?”
Sean
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Nothing will happen on Cmd-F12 – like I said, the Digital Cinema Desktop option completely disappeared from the dropdown menu, just wasn’t there anymore.
I already found a solution: power off – disconnect 2nd monitor – power on – open and close FCP – power off – reconnect 2nd monitor and everything’s back to normal. Bit of a nuisance, but it works!
Jaap
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Sorry I misread your post. Glad you found a solution.
Sean
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I have the same problem, Jaap, since I switched to MacBook Pro, with FCP 4.5. I tried your trick, but it didn’t work. FCP Viewer functionality does not recognize my external screen, nor my tube (which go alternatively into the same port). FCP does recognize it for dual-screen workflow, of course, and I can put the canvas wherever I want, but not for full-screen viewing elsewhere than on the MBP. Command F12 is only a shortcut to open full screen viewing, but of course here again, only on the screen available in the dropdown menu– hence no external monitor! I even tried to reconnect the monitor using its analogue input, put to no avail.
Any more ideas?
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I have no idea, actually – but perhaps: What happens when you reorder screens in the OS system settings?
I mean, I guess there is some link to the OS and what is doing to recognize screens , I noticed that when the error occurred the second screen’s wallpaper (or background – sorry I can’t remember the English word for it) also changed to that of the main screen.
Jaap
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I had been having the same problem. The only view option was Digital cinema preview main or none. The machine in reference is a MBP 15″ 2.2ghz. This has been the way its been ever since I had purchased the machine. Then today just for the hell of it I tried plugging in a samsung LCD diplay and the options were there for all digital cinema desktop options. Main,raw,preview. Needless to say but AWESOME. At this point I hooked it up to my 42″ panasonic plasma(display I had originally used with MBP) and that now worked as well. Very strange but it seems to have something to do with the external display not telling your dvi port that it was here for use. It seems as though the samsung has woken the dvi port as well as FCP recognizes it’s connection. Even now when there is no external display plugged in to MBP, FCP still has the option to select Digital Cinema desktop-preview although greyed out because it is not plugged in. Sorry for the rant but I know others have had the same issue.
After thinking about the display fix that woke the dvi port. I also remembered that the samsung was a vga display. If anyone remembers when laptops and projectors were first used, you had to plug the vga cable into the laptop 1st before powering on. If you didn’t your computer didn’t realize that anything was plugged in. And wouldn’t send a signal to the projector.Just a side thought.
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Yes it definitely seems to be an OS issue.
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