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Re: External Monitor problems
Hello,
I’ve just received my new Kona 2 with K Box and IO LA. I am monitoring using a 23″HD monitor and a hi res SD CRT monitor. I am doing a SD edit at the moment and it plays fine on both monitors from the timeline, however a clip played in the source window does not. Also I have loaded the Panasonic HD National Geographic footage and timelines from the disk that comes with FCP. When the playhead is parked you see a still on each monitor but when you hit play neither of the monitors displays a moving image, though they do update when you hit pause. I have had this issue before using DV Pal as the output, but as far as I am aware all the settings are correct. I’m sure this is my ineptitude, but any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Otis F
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2 Replies
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Oh yeah I am still using FCP 4.5 on Panther, so it’s not a version 5 issue.
Cheers
Otis F
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Otis,
Just saw your message. If you’re still having problems, there are a set of cool “stock answers” for FCP (FAQs and answers) at the Apple Discussions site. Here’s the direct link:
<https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@513.JIVEaHCtZ0M.2@.68a3b883>
There’s a laundry list of things to try:
– resetting viewer and canvas window sizes
– resfreshing your A/V devices (option-F12)
– toggle video preview on and off (all frames on and off) (command-F12)
– restart and relaunch FCP
– check settings (image, wireframe, square pixels, etc.) in the pull-down menus of the viewer
and canvas windowsI occasionally see this exact behavior, where my broadcast monitor only updates still “fields” when the playhead is stopped. This happens mostly while the viewer is active, and very rarely while the canvas (timeline) is active.
I have a Decklink Pro card feeding my broadcast monitor, so it may be a wierd driver/SW quirk with the card output, or a FCP quirk, or some combination of the two.
From what I can remember, resizing the viewer window and then scaling the contents to fit the window seems to work… hope this helps.
-Dave
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