FCP Canvas and Viewer show up white in fcp 7

[Harry Brunjes]

It seems its just a display/ grpahics setting – so this worked – i simply restored my original LCD calibration and its back working! then you just need to recalibrate.

I also had performed an OS X system restore, and didnt want to clean wipe.

This resoved it. Play with the display settings.

[James Carey]

Tim, this worked perfectly and saved my ass, thank you!!

Tim Said:

After reading this, i did the following

1. leaving FCP running – Launched Sys Prefs
2. Opened display options
3. selected the Colour tab
– This caused a recalibration
4. Back to FCP – Played a video

and thanks Creative Cow for excellent resource.

Jim Carey
Director of Video, Radical Entertainment
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[Cyrus James]

Excellent instruction!!

[John Baumgartner]

Holy crap, bless you. Thanks!

[Tim Dring]

Wow great to see that my original solution is still helping out over a year later

[Kathryn Moseley]

Thank you! I hit a button and couldn’t figure out why my Canvas and Viewer windows were all white, but read your post and realized that “Alpha” was accidentally checked under View/Channels…