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Easy setup won’t change video playback
Hello,
I don’t normally work on projects that require to me to change my easy setup back and forth often, and when I do, I set the easy setup and manually change my video and playback outputs under the view menu. I realized that the easy setups specify a video and audio playback setting, but when you select that easy setup it doesn’t change it — it stays at whatever you had been using. I discovered this when I was trying to troubleshoot a friend’s request to make this work. Is this normal?
Thanks,
Here are the specs:
FCP 7.0.3
10.6.8
AJA 8.1.1 -
3 Replies
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How are you viewing your timeline?
When you use easy setup, you are left with a note that states:
Settings for existing sequences will not change. New sequences will use the settings from the selected Easy Setup preset.You need to have a Playback Output Video option for this to take effect.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
The change that isn’t taking place that I am referring to is the video and audio playback settings. If I start a project that’s using a video playback of 1080 60i and switch to an easy setup that has a playback of 720 60p, it won’t change from 1080 60i to 720 60p; I am forced to set it to 720p manually. I just noticed this after years of working with FCP and thought I remembered it doing this, but it has been awhile since I’ve worked on projects requiring me to change my easy setups back and forth often.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks
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Annoying isn’t it. It’s been like that as long as I can remember. You just have to get used to changing it manually. I switch projects a half dozen times a day; SD, HD, 720, 1080, 23.98, 29.97, 24 etc. You just have to remember to manually switch the View/Video Playback setting.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
http://www.ambidextrous.net
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