Digital Cinema Desktop Preview

[Shane Ross]

VIEW>EXTERNAL VIDEO. There are like 5 options.

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Phaseshift]

Shane, thanks for the suggestion, but I already know its supposed to be there. What I’m saying is, the command has disappeared.

I’m not at my Mac, so I can’t quote the menus exactly, but at View>External Video my options right now are:
None
[Missing] DV/DVCPro NTSC 29.98

I also get an alert when I launch FCP telling me that the Digital Cinema Desktop Preview is not attached, or something like that. It’s a bit bizarre.

David Fell

[Debe]

Dave–

Try a complete shutdown of everything.

Then power up in no particular order, except make sure you power up the CPU last.

Try again.

I’ve had similar issues happen on site, and only a restart has fixed it.

debe

[Phaseshift]

Thanks, Debe, but that didn’t solve it.

Slightly more detail, now that I’m home.
The alert box that comes up when I start FCP says:
Unable to locate the following external devices:
Digital Cinema Desktop Preview – Main

etc.

I’ve saved a copy of this and the video playback menu selection at:
https://web.mac.com/dfell/iWeb/FCP%20Problem/

David Fell
Chicago

[Tom Wolsky]

Did you change anything in the system? Add a card, change any hardware? Anything?

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Phaseshift]

Hmmm. I did add a musical keyboard via USB, a Korg KONTROL49. I’ll try unplugging that. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try reinstalling FCP.

David Fell
Chicago

[Phaseshift]

Disconnecting the KONTROL49 didn’t help. I ended up reinstalling FCP from the original CD (glad I hadn’t sent in for that Universal update yet), and all now seems well.

Thanks everyone for your input.

David Fell
Chicago