External Monitor Pixelated from FCPX

[Nikolas Bäurle]

Check if desktop video is set to NTSC. Sometimes it crashes and defaults to NTSC for some reason.

“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python

[Bret Williams]

That’s not really a standard setup, using a computer monitor as a video editing monitor. Likely the gamma will be off and it wouldn’t support fields.

On my Flanders, which is a video monitor, I have a DVI input which can be used for HDMI with an adapter. However I do have to go into the monitor menu and change the DVI type. I think the same would possibly be true for HDMI unless it has some sort of auto detection. It’s likely looking for a computer RGB signal, and it needs a YCbCr signal.

Worth digging into the monitor settings if you haven’t figured it out already.

[Bill Davis]

The others above might be totally correct and you may have some monitor settings wrong – but t’s also possible that X simply hasn’t had time to transcode from it’s thumbnail video files into higher rez workng files.

Park you playhead on a frame – and wait a second.

If the shot on your monitor clears up – then you’re just looking tX working like it’s designed to – which is to get you working instantly – and do the rendering in the background when it has time.

When X fully renders out the timeline, (i.e. when the orange render bar disappears in your storyline) the problem may well disappear.

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[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Also check in the preferences of FCPX if your playback quality is set on High Quality or Better Performance.