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FCP playback problem
Hi everyone, I suddenly have a problem with playback that I hope someone can help with.
I have a sequence in a project that’s only playing single frames to the external monitor (either external hardware or the Digital Cinema Desktop Preview).
It was playing back fine earlier today.
It still plays fine with another sequence from another project (720p DVC Pro HD – loaded at the same time as the one I’m having trouble with).
But the main project (10-bit Uncompressed 720p) just won’t play back right.Audio plays fine. Video plays in the canvas (poorly) but only a still is shown on the external monitor.
I’ve shutdown and restarted the computer, switched Video Playback and External Video settings, set the Easy set-up I used when I created the project and haven’t had any success in fixing the problem.
Like I said, it was working earlier in the day and I didn’t change any sequence or playback settings.
This is FCP 5.1.4 on a quad-core G5 with an XRAID (fibre-channel) and an AJA Kona LHe.
Thanks,
D.W.Burman -
2 Replies
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in the external monitor setting make sure the selected playback output is a non whole number. Also make sure the selection is set for “all frames”
example, if it says NTSC 720×486 30 fps, make it NTSC 720X480 29.97 fps
also check that your sequence matches your footage.
a co-worker of mine made 10-bit uncompressed quicktimes out of AE at a frame rate of 30 fps, he dropped them in a 10-bit final cut timeline and it asked him (fcp 6) if he wanted it to change the sequence to match and he did, which made it not play in realtime. It changed the sequence from 29.97 to 30 fps and it would play fine on the canvas but only one frame on the crt external monitor.
hope that helps.
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[Chris Borjis] “example, if it says NTSC 720×486 30 fps, make it NTSC 720X480 29.97 fps”
sorry that should read NTSC 720×486 30 fps, make it NTSC 720X486
not 480
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