My video playback is not playing back

[Kevin Monahan]

Sounds odd. Maybe try trashing prefs. That is, if everything worked fine before.

Kevin Monahan
60 Blu-ray Templates for Final Cut Studio 2009
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Steve Eisen]

Are you trying to playback h.264?

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Andrew Kimery]

1. In A/V settings, A/V devices tab make sure “Mirror on Desktop” is turned On. If it is turned Off your Canvas window will not playback video if you are trying to play-out to an external monitor.

2. Double check that your sequence settings match up with your video output settings. For example, if I am working in a 720p60 timeline but I have my video output set to 1080i50 I won’t get video playback on my external monitor but I will still see an image when the playhead is stopped and I can still scrub though it.

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Heath Alseike]

I was given this project form another editor. All the settings match up, it is DV/DVCPRO – NTSC not h.264. However, I tried opening another project that I had done myself and I am having the same problem. Then in a third project I tried with a small 30 sec video only, the playback played laggy but the canvas is still not playing. The canvas plays fine when I turn the playback off.

[Paul Hawke-williams]

Try setting your canvas window to “fit to window” for playback (the left hand drop down menu above the canvas video display – that might help.
Cheers

Paul Hawke-Williams
http://www.macguruwales.co.uk
Media Trainer – Mac Support – Video Production

[Andrew Kimery]

Are you monitoring out via FW or a card like from AJA or Blackmagic?

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Heath Alseike]

My output to an external monitor is HDMI. I did make sure my canvas is fit to window. Like I said the playback display is not the issue. That works I have no problems there. I can see the canvas on my external monitors, I have even tried two different ones. Its just once I hit play the video does not play. The audio does just not the video. The display changes on the playback monitor when it is paused to whatever frame it I’m on and I can see the display change when I scrub through. I just can’t figure out why it won’t play back.

[Andrew Kimery]

Well, it sounds like the playback display is the issue because you are not getting any playback on the display. 😉

Since you’ve made sure your Video Playback settings in FCP match your Sequence settings I’d try reinstalling the drivers for your I/O card and/or contacting the maker of the card for tech support. Have you tried just powering the whole machine down and rebooting?

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Heath Alseike]

I did try the restart. Im not sure how to reinstall the drivers on my video card. I will figure that out and try that. At this point I am pretty sure that it is a video card or ram issue. Appreciate your advice.

[Baptiste Gacoin]

hey

I’m having the same problem as you : just the playback on my external monitor driven by Blackmagic not following, sticking to a frame, although all settings seem correct. Interested to know if you solved it eventually.
I’m working on a Mac Pro 2×2.93 Ghz Quad core Intel Xeon with 8GB Ram, Final cut pro 7 and Blackmagic.
I’m not really a hardware genius so here’s all the info from System profiler
Graphics card is NVIDIA Geforce GT 120. It’s in slot 1 and also serves as PCI card, along with pcibdbd.a120 in slot 3
i’ve got 4 2GB ram chips in slots 1 2 and 5 6, leaving 3 4 and 7 8 empty. They’re DDR3 ECC type chips.
I would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks

Baptiste Gacoin