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  • editing Canvas is solid white

    Posted by Heringji on August 1, 2005 at 8:06 pm

    I recently imported some material to edit. I had it set to import 2 hours and then stop after that time. I left it to go overnight and saved it all in the morning. The imported clip is obviously there. I can see it in the viewer and have chopped it into 4 sequences to edit. Now those sequences and everything else i’ve opened to try editing shows up solid white in the Canvas. It’s too hard to edit this way. Does anyone know how to fix this or what may have happened?

    Thanks!

    Jill

    Heringji replied 20 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Andy Mees

    August 2, 2005 at 4:12 am

    it sounds like you’ve inadvertently set your canvas to display the alpha channel instead of the video
    with the canvas window active, go to the View > Channels submenu and make sure that RGB is selected

    if were lucky, its that simple

    best
    Andy

  • Heringji

    August 2, 2005 at 1:49 pm

    Your awesome, That’s all it was.

    Yesterday, I also did some messing around with the size of the picture in the Canvas and found out that as long as it was set at anything smaller than 50% or even set to “Fit All” or “Fit to Window” then the picture would show up as long as the sequence was actually playing. It would go back to a white screen once I pushed the space bar to stop playing. Thought that might be an interesting tid-bit to share. 🙂

    Thank you Andy,

    Jill

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