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losing output to external monitor
I input component analog, SDI and S-video through the IO. Many times when I change these sources I lose output to my external monitor. At other times, during editing, I lose output also. The only way it seems that I can rectify this is by rebooting. Selecting refresh AV devices does nothing. Any suggestions?
Rick Diamond
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6 Replies
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always check view/external video/all frames. You would be surprised how often it “mysteriously” goes to OFF.
Bob Zelin
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I always check that when I check Refresh external video. It’s usually OK. When I reboot, the setting will sometimes change to “off”. when changed back to view all frames, the video will then be output to the monitor…So the question remains: Why does the video to the external monitor flake out when I change video inputs?
Rick
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i don’t know the answer to that one, but it happens to me a lot. I am speculating it has something to do with either the easy setups, or the way that final cut is reading the signal from the io when the io is switching inputs. Maybe the when the io reroutes the internal inputs fcp senses that there’s no video input and switches the setting to off. Apple-f12 is the keyboard shortcut to get you back to view all frames. Perhaps, some sort of update from apple (whether it’s an io driver update or fcp5) will fix this.
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I respectfully disagree with your answer. I have seen this view/external video/off (or all frames) mysteriously switch to OFF in the simpliest systems that are using a Canopus or Datavideo DV to composite converter as well as all the “professional” AJA, Blackmagic and Pinnacle Hardware. Is this a bug with the Apple software? Is this “us” doing something stupid? -I don’t know, but I do know that it happens all the time, and it drives everyone crazy, and you just get used to it.
Bob Zelin
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I believe Capture mode defeats the normal output pathway temporarily until you close it out. Something in there seems to “forget” to switch back playback frames when returning to editing mode. Strangely, some rookie editors (no offense implied) seem to like to keep editing systems in capture mode all the time even when not capturing (I’ve seen this in training people on Avid and FCP — why is this???). Though this doesn’t do any damage, it must seem perplexing to them why the system can’t seem to figure out what to do…
steve covello
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Not that this has anything to do with this thread, but yes… and that’s got to be the most frequently answered question for a lot of us. When they say “I lost the NTSC monitor” I always start with “Is the Log & Capture window open”? The next thing I usually get is “Oh, never mind”.
That said, there is another phantom thing going on that this thread addresses… which thankfully I don’t experience.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
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