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FCP/ AJA FYI…
Just an FYI for anyone interested. We had an AJA IO that out of the blue decided it no longer wanted to output video to our client monitors. Audio output fine through the IO bt video only played on the computer monitor. To make a long story short, after sending the IO bak to AJA multiple times without them being able to figure out why the box wasn’t outputting video we came across a very simple reasoning. Evidentally we had one plugin pack that had become corrupt and hence caused the AJA to not output video. Removing the plugins and reinstalling them from the original disc fixed the problem completely. Just thought I could save someone else weeks of edit room downtime by sharing our experience.
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Your tip applies across the board for all video cards, external boxes and even other plug-ins within FCP. Just about everything you do to your FCP system can have an effect on everything else within your system.
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Go on then, spill the beans – which set of plugins was it?
Peter
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CGM DVE. However we have used these plugins successfully fir 3 years. The were reinstalled and are working fine now.
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Still strange though. I’ve never heard of a plugin set messing up a hardware’s output structure. Then again, it could’ve been messed up internally within FCP before even getting to the IO. Good to share the experience though!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Hello,
I have noticed that, for some reason, FCP will ocasionally not output any frames to my AJA Io LA. It kind of sounds like the problem that you had, tmorris6936 – all of the sudden, there’s just black (not the typical blue when the AJA isn’t getting a signal from the Mac) coming out of the AJA.
tmorris6936, when this happened, did you by chance check under View > External Video to see if something (perhaps CGM DVE caused it) switched you to “Off” instead of “All Frames”? If you hit Apple/F12 at the same time if this happens again (the black screen that you got through the AJA), “All Frames” will be output through the AJA and it just might work for you. This has happened to me a couple of times and I’m starting to remember to do it!
Perhaps you already tried this, tmorris6936, but I just thought I’d mention it because it sounds like “Off” might have been inadvertantly selected on your system, given the description you provided.
Please let me know if this helped or not,
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Yeah luckily that was the first thing that we checked. We had been bitten by that bug earlier. Turned out to be corrupt plugins.
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