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FCP HD/23″ HD Cinema Display/MacBook Pro 17″= No Fullscreen HD Display
Hi,
I’m using a brand new MacBook Pro 17″ (ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card) with a 23″ Apple HD Cinema Display hooked up as the main monitor. Trouble is, when I’m in FCP HD and working with DVCPRO HD footage (720 or 1080) I can’t play any clips in fullscreen mode on the Cinema Display. It just gives me a still image.
If I play the same clip in QT Player at fullscreen/presentation mode they play fine on the Cinema Display. What gives?
If QT Player can handle the playback of these files in fullscreen on the external display, then why can’t Final Cut?
Thanks,
TimR><> -
7 Replies
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I’m confused. Please explain your setup further. I get the hardware you have but do you have any external drives?
Are you talking about the cinema desktop display? Are you having trouble playing the clips without the monitor? Do your clips and sequence settings match?
Please give more info as I am shooting blind without what you are trying to do.
Jeremy
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I to am also confused you say you are on a macbook pro rinning FCP HD.
FCP HD (AKA FCP 4.5) will not run on a macbook pro you need FCP 5.1. FCP 4.5 is NOT Intel compatible only FCP 5.1 is.
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Try VIEW>>VIDEO PLAYBACK>>DIGITAL CINEMA DESKTOP PREVIEW (one of those options) and make sure VIEW>>EXTERNAL VIDEO>>ALL FRAMES is on.
I run the 15-inch MBP and use the 23″ monitor with no problem.
Enjoy.
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Make sure you are not choosing RAW since that would display 1280×1080 (for 1080i) and it looks squeezed, because it is. When viewing setting are set up correctly there will be black bars on top and bottom like a light letterboxing. The monitor is 1920×1200 so there has to be some black since the video displayed is 1920×1080.
But when viewing 720p fullscreen you are uprezing the pixels and it is sometimes better to see this in RAW and let the image float on the screen. This way you are viewing pixel for pixel.
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Tim,
If none of these other suggestions have solved your problem then try this- if your viewer window is set to 100% then try scaling it down a bit and use the “fit to window” option so that its about 98% or so, then configure your video playback to fullscreen and set external video to “all frames”… I know this sounds weird, but I had a similar problem in FCP, although it was on a totally different set up than your MBP, but for some reason video playback on an external monitor would freeze when I had the viewer window set to 100%… Just thought I’d toss out the idea.
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oops, quick fix – I meant to say, scale down your “Canvas” window and set it to “fit to window”, not your “Viewer” window. My bad.
Best,
NathanH
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Thanks for the replies everyone…I’ll give these a try – though many of them I have already tried.
I goofed up in my original post. I am not using FCP HD (old habbit I guess). I’m using FCP 5.1.2 universal.
Thanks,
TimR><>
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