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Horizontal Tearing in Final Cut Pro 6
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If you’re not talking about interlacing, but a horizontal tearing that ripples down through the shot, there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s a display problem in the system. The computer screen refresh is causing the splitting on fast motion, like pans and quick movement within the frame. If that’s not what you’re seeing, then I don’t know what you mean, and it’d be best if you could put up a screen grab that showed what you mean.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
Why did I spend 3K for a 17″ hi res laptop and have a horizontal tearing problem?
Apple should resolve this asap. Not the best way to show off your beautiful shots to a paying client. -
This problem is happening here as well with my MB Pro 17″ Hi res system. And I just talked to someone else with the same computer – same problem. Apple, what’s going on here? Not acceptable. We will need an answer soon as most of us with these systems are using FCP in the field and it’s not helping with clients viewing footage on these supposedly hi resolution screens. My guess is that there is an issue with the NVidia card/driver and perhaps the 1920×1200 resolution.
Steve
Steve Sherrick
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[cenbrown] “Has anyone had any issues with FCP 6 and the latest MacBook Pro 2.4ghz, where by when playing back video in the viewer or canvas pain there is a lot of horizontal tearing.”
This is normal for interlaced video. Apple expects you to monitor this video on an external display. The Viewer and Canvas are purposely degraded to allow for more realtime functionality.
I see this all the time with interlaced material, whether it’s SD or HD, especially with action in the frame or camera movement. But this is never evident on the external displays.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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[Steve Sherrick] “This problem is happening here as well with my MB Pro 17″ Hi res system. And I just talked to someone else with the same computer – same problem. Apple, what’s going on here? Not acceptable.”
This isn’t a problem, it’s normal behavior in the Viewer and Canvas, especially for interlaced material and any time there is a lot of action in the frame or camera motion. The Viewer and Canvas are purposely degraded to allow for more realtime functionality as Apple expects you to be viewing this material on an external video display.
I see this “tearing” all the time with SD and HD material, but it is never evident on the external displays, which is all that matters.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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I’ve been having the same problem on my MBP 17″ Hi-res 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM using an external eSATA RAID.
This is absolutely not normal behavior as this is the only machine we have that does this. Also, this happens even with progressive video. This is also not a FCP problem: I’ve experienced the same playback problem in After Effects previews and in QuickTime Player.
Our machines range from Dual G5s to 8-core Intels, all using various Apple Cinema displays, and also a MBP 15″, and none of them display this symptom in the canvas, regardless of whether the canvas is zoomed in at 100% or any other size.
Meanwhile, the MBP 17″ gets the screen tear regardless of whether the canvas is at 100% or any other setting, whether it is displayed on the built-in display or an external (DVI) display.
I looked into getting a Matrox MXO for this computer as a possible work-around, but that device is apparently still not compatible with this model of laptop: It produces screen tearing, too. (Of course, this machine meets all the system requirements, but after reading their support forums, I found out many people are having problems using it with this model).
I had also hoped that it was just a problem with the logic board, but we recently had that replaced for another issue, and the screen tearing is still happening.
The really frustrating part is that our MBP 15″ with a slower processor, half the RAM and a slower graphics card outperforms the ultimate beast of MacBook Pros when it comes to something as simple as playing video. So, until this problem is fixed, we have to take the MBP 17″ onsite for editing, but still bring the MBP 15″ for playback.
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anyone solve this yet? my new 15″ MBP with 4gb rams has screen tearing on playback but my year old 17″ MBP does not with 2gb ram
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heres a related thread Philip, may be some info to glean there
https://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8011455#8011455
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